The Rabbit Hutch : THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NY TIMES BESTSELLER Tess Gunty
The Rabbit Hutch : THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NY TIMES BESTSELLER (Hardback)Tess Gunty
The Rabbit Hutch is a standout literary debut that everyone is talking about. Written by Tess Gunty, the book is a profound and wise exploration of modern America, with a wild and inventive style. Blandine is a unique character who lives in a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana. She is an online obituary writer and a young mother with a dark secret, who is waging a solo campaign against rodents. She shares her flat with three teenage boys who she neither likes nor understands, and they are all searching for meaning in their lives. The Rabbit Hutch is set over one sweltering week in July, and the story culminates in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything. The book is a savagely beautiful and hilarious portrait of contemporary America, exploring themes of loneliness, longing, entrapment, and freedom. The writing is characterized by a keen, sensitive eye and a deep understanding of all kinds of intimacy, both the kind that people build with others and the kind they cultivate around themselves and their private aspirations.
- Hardback
- 352 Pages / Published 21 Jul 2022
- In stock
£16.99
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DARKLY HILARIOUS AND SEARINGLY RELEVANT, THE RABBIT HUTCH IS A POWERFUL PORTRAIT OF 21st CENTURY AMERICA, SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE UNFORGETTABLE BLANDINEWinner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022 * Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022’Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny’ ObserverVacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek’s list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however, it’s a city with a whole history of reinvention, one that ‘buzzes with the American spirit.’Not everyone agrees though – certainly not the residents of the Rabbit Hutch, a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre, populated by a cast of unforgettable, disenfranchised characters. There’s an online obituary writer, a woman waging a solo campaign against rodents and, most notably, eighteen-year-old Blandine, recently released from foster care and determined to stop the developers whatever the cost. Set over one sweltering week in July, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America.
Bold, experimental and brilliantly written, it will live in the memory long after the final page. A Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022’The Rabbit Hutch is 2022’s The Secret History’ The Big IssueA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award * Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize * An Oprah Daily Book of the Year, 2022A New York Times bestseller, Sept 3 2023
Additional information
| Weight | 566 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 242 × 38 mm |
| ISBN-13 | 9780861543656 |
| Publisher | Oneworld Publications |
| Imprint | Oneworld Publications |
| Date of Publication | 21 Jul 2022 |
| By (author) | Tess Gunty |
| Pages | 352 |
| Format | Hardback |
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