![]() ![]() ![]() “ exists in a fascinating liminal space: a painful and unexplored past and an uncertain future.When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period. The effect is to make the reading a conscious, physical process, as cross-grained and obstacle-strewn as Shy’s way of existing in the world.” -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal You've subscribed to Max Porter Mysteries We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. Recollections of his rage attacks appear in breathlessly pummeling single-sentence paragraphs, while some phrases loom so large in his imagination they balloon in size and push over into the following page. “ method relies on an original use of typography.It gooses and taunts him, cheers and parents him, forming him into whatever he is going to be.” -Katy Waldman, The New Yorker His first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, won the Sunday Times/Peters, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize. The only magic is in the language, which makes its surprising interventions into a teenager’s life. ![]() displays an unusual grasp of how consciousness moves, darting and pausing and doubling back, in real time. “ may be contemporary fiction’s bard of ugly beauty and exultant despair. “Porter's compulsively readable primal scream of a novel offers a compassionate portrait of boy jerked around by uncontrollable mood swings that lead to self-sabotaging decisions.” -Heller McAlpin, NPR.org. ![]()
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