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1. Eley Williams

Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

‘Stories that work from the inside out … In these glancing, intriguing stories, Williams is careful never to offer neat endings’ Guardian ‘Stories of deft surprise and smuggled revelations, glorious snapshots of lives lived with bafflement and wonder. Magical’ Jon McGregor, author of Lean Fall Stand ‘Undeniably a skilful book’ Telegraph ‘Poignant and playful’ Daily Mail ‘Delightfully comic stories executed with such precision and care … Williams is a writer with few real rivals for stylistic acuity and invention’ Irish Times ‘I don’t know anyone else who can write like this – language does something special for Eley Williams. What a joy!’ Ben Pester, author of Am I in the Right Place? ‘A visionary writer… Each story is a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic exploration of a moment. Williams writes with both buoyancy and tremendous weight’ Jan Carson, author of Quickly, While They Still Have Horses ‘Frequently brilliant and deeply pleasurable … Williams’ writing is funny, surprising, calming and inimitable’ Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Alternatives ‘Like Kate Atkinson’s recent Normal Rules Don’t Apply, what you have here is a strong, funny writer having some fun’ Bookmunch 'Vital, vivid and oddly companionable stories… that make wonders from the ordinary in a heady but precise wordplay' David Hayden, author of Darker with the Lights On ‘Swimming in Williams’ oceanic imagination is a joy for the head and the heart‘ Ruby Cowling, author of This Paradise ‘There’s a frightening type of joy in these stories; erudite and audacious’ Keiran Goddard, author of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning ‘Confirms her status as champion of the quixotic, the profound, the pulling-the-rug-from-under-your-feet unexpected. A writer to treasure’ Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings

1. Eley , Williams

Scrivere lettere d'amore prima di dimenticare come si fa

I personaggi di queste storie sono colti nel momento in cui tutto precipita. Nel momento in cui perdono - l'amore, la rotta nella vita, la capacità di parlare - o nel momento in cui raccolgono - le penne, i pensieri, il fiato. Nel momento in cui qualcosa sta per coglierli di sorpresa o cambiargli per sempre la vita. Sono incontri minuscoli - con una persona amata, un'opera d'arte, la natura. Incontri sospesi nel tempo, vicinissimi ma mai accaduti veramente, di continuo ripercorsi nelle loro menti instancabili. Eppure, per quanto si sforzino, i protagonisti di questi incontri trovano sempre diabolicamente impossibile esprimersi davvero. Sono bambini dagli occhi cangianti, ragazze che non trovano più le parole, una rumorista destinata a rimanere anonima, una chef che cucina uccelli nell'acquavite. Sono persone dolorosamente consapevoli delle potenzialità del linguaggio ma soprattutto dei suoi limiti. Sono amici, fratelli, amanti che esplorano insieme il sentimento, così come il dizionario, dibattuti fra la necessità di agire e il bisogno tutto umano di essere visti, conosciuti e capiti. "Scrivere lettere d'amore prima di dimenticare come si fa" è una raccolta che trabocca originalità e invenzione di un'autrice adorata dai lettori, paragonata dalla critica a Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg e Amy Hempel.

1. Eley Williams

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‘A writer for whom one struggles to find comparison, because she has arrived in a class of her own' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'A book that says something about how it feels to be human, among the uncertainties of the twenty-first century … exhilarating' Guardian 'It's exhilarating to dive into the associative rush of Williams's writing' Vanity Fair 'It is impossible not to identify with Williams's candid observations of the quirks and quandaries of emotional life’ Times Literary Supplement 'You feel in the safe hands of a storyteller dedicating their talent to our pleasure' Observer 'Funny, playful and utterly bravura' Melissa Harrison, author of By Ash, Oak and Thorn 'One of the most promising young British writers to emerge in the past few years' Financial Times 'There's no one working in the UK quite like her' Joanna Walsh 'An emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective collection' New Statesman 'Funny, playful and utterly bravura' Melissa Harrison, Financial Times 'The real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing' Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers 'It proved you can generate acrobatic, edge-of-your-seat fiction, from little more than random arcana' The Telegraph 'Attrib. And Other Stories cornered the market in cerebral playfulness' Guardian ‘I came late to Eley Williams and am happy to have found her. Hearing her read her short story ‘Smote’ aloud recently blew me away’ Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under 'Think William Gass, Lydia Davis or Anne Carson, and you won't be too wrong' Michael Hoffmann, London Review of Books ‘Wondrous things, shots of linguistic pleasure that take moments of everyday life and fashion something marvellous from them’ Times Literary Supplement

1. Eley Williams

Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

‘Stories that work from the inside out … In these glancing, intriguing stories, Williams is careful never to offer neat endings’ Guardian ‘Stories of deft surprise and smuggled revelations, glorious snapshots of lives lived with bafflement and wonder. Magical’ Jon McGregor, author of Lean Fall Stand ‘Undeniably a skilful book’ Telegraph ‘Poignant and playful’ Daily Mail ‘Delightfully comic stories executed with such precision and care … Williams is a writer with few real rivals for stylistic acuity and invention’ Irish Times ‘I don’t know anyone else who can write like this – language does something special for Eley Williams. What a joy!’ Ben Pester, author of Am I in the Right Place? ‘A visionary writer… Each story is a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic exploration of a moment. Williams writes with both buoyancy and tremendous weight’ Jan Carson, author of Quickly, While They Still Have Horses ‘Frequently brilliant and deeply pleasurable … Williams’ writing is funny, surprising, calming and inimitable’ Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Alternatives ‘Like Kate Atkinson’s recent Normal Rules Don’t Apply, what you have here is a strong, funny writer having some fun’ Bookmunch 'Vital, vivid and oddly companionable stories… that make wonders from the ordinary in a heady but precise wordplay' David Hayden, author of Darker with the Lights On ‘Swimming in Williams’ oceanic imagination is a joy for the head and the heart‘ Ruby Cowling, author of This Paradise ‘There’s a frightening type of joy in these stories; erudite and audacious’ Keiran Goddard, author of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning ‘Confirms her status as champion of the quixotic, the profound, the pulling-the-rug-from-under-your-feet unexpected. A writer to treasure’ Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings

1. Eley Williams

Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

‘Stories that work from the inside out … In these glancing, intriguing stories, Williams is careful never to offer neat endings’ Guardian ‘Stories of deft surprise and smuggled revelations, glorious snapshots of lives lived with bafflement and wonder. Magical’ Jon McGregor, author of Lean Fall Stand ‘Undeniably a skilful book’ Telegraph ‘Poignant and playful’ Daily Mail ‘Delightfully comic stories executed with such precision and care … Williams is a writer with few real rivals for stylistic acuity and invention’ Irish Times ‘I don’t know anyone else who can write like this – language does something special for Eley Williams. What a joy!’ Ben Pester, author of Am I in the Right Place? ‘A visionary writer… Each story is a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic exploration of a moment. Williams writes with both buoyancy and tremendous weight’ Jan Carson, author of Quickly, While They Still Have Horses ‘Frequently brilliant and deeply pleasurable … Williams’ writing is funny, surprising, calming and inimitable’ Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Alternatives ‘Like Kate Atkinson’s recent Normal Rules Don’t Apply, what you have here is a strong, funny writer having some fun’ Bookmunch 'Vital, vivid and oddly companionable stories… that make wonders from the ordinary in a heady but precise wordplay' David Hayden, author of Darker with the Lights On ‘Swimming in Williams’ oceanic imagination is a joy for the head and the heart‘ Ruby Cowling, author of This Paradise ‘There’s a frightening type of joy in these stories; erudite and audacious’ Keiran Goddard, author of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning ‘Confirms her status as champion of the quixotic, the profound, the pulling-the-rug-from-under-your-feet unexpected. A writer to treasure’ Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings

1. Eley Williams

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