Attrib. and Other Stories

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Pub Date 18 May 2021 | Archive Date 25 Feb 2022

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From the author of The Liar’s Dictionary, a prizewinning collection of wryly funny and blazingly original short fiction.

"Williams delights not simply in wordplay but also in people who are alive to the poignant and humorous potential of language." —The New Yorker
 
"It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." —Max Porter


Eley Williams has been a literary sensation ever since this collection of experimental short fiction was published in the UK. Lauded as "elegant" (The Guardian) and "exhilarating" (Vanity Fair), Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was named a best book of the year by The Guardian.

Attrib. presents a cast of unforgettable characters standing at the precipice of emotional events (a disastrous breakup, a successful date, an unexpected arrival) and finding it fiendishly impossible to express themselves. With intimate, irreverent, and playful prose, Eley Williams rejoices in both the possibilities and limitations of language, as well as the very human need to be known and understood--despite our own best efforts.

Original and inventive in the vein of Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, and Amy Hempel, these stories are "emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective" (New Statesman) and "an absolute must-read" (The London Magazine).
From the author of The Liar’s Dictionary, a prizewinning collection of wryly funny and blazingly original short fiction.

"Williams delights not simply in wordplay but also in people who are alive to...

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PAGES 160

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