A shock
(Book)
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Published
New York : New Directions Publishing, 2021.
ISBN
9780811230858
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Addison Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Books | FIC RIDGWAY K. | On Shelf |
Batavia Public Library District - Adult Fiction | FIC Ridgway, Keith | On Shelf |
Bensenville Community Public Library District - Fiction | RIDGWAY | On Shelf |
Bloomingdale Public Library - Fiction | F RID | On Shelf |
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | FICTION RIDGWAY, K. | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : New Directions Publishing, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780811230858
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General Note
"A New Directions paperbook original." -- title page
Description
"Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it's at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They're on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway's most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell-he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don't know what time it is ..."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ridgway, K. (2021). A shock (First New Directions edition.). New Directions Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ridgway, Keith, 1965-. 2021. A Shock. New Directions Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ridgway, Keith, 1965-. A Shock New Directions Publishing, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ridgway, Keith. A Shock First New Directions edition., New Directions Publishing, 2021.
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