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Buch (Hardcover): Belletristik
Black Bag
Longlisted For The Booker Prize 2026
Verlag:
John Murray Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34965001
EAN: 9781399826112
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Di, 20.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
'The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while' ZADIE SMITH. 'Black Bag. made me laugh aloud dozens and dozens of times. It's brilliant, a triumph of a book. I loved its inventive originality and its ambition: it is very powerfully worth your time' KATHERINE RUNDELL. 'A campus novel for our end times. Black Bag. fizzes with wit and invention and winningly communicates a very human concern for meaning and connection' Observer. 'A triumph of deadpan comedy. As surreal and ambitious as Tom McCarthy's Remainder. , only written by someone with the comic instincts of Peep Show. 's Jesse Armstrong. [Kennard is] so generous with the jokes that I found myself laughing on almost every page. A brilliant comic tour de force' Sunday Times. 'Hilarious and poignant. Luke's prose ripples with unusual images and wry aphorisms. The tone throughout is delightfully mordant. This is a very modern novel with a comfortingly familiar core: that of an ode to the importance of friendship, tenderness and love' TLS. 'Very, very funny' GQ. A penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures. The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag. Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation. A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag. is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Kennard Luke
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 400