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Banal Nightmare

Halle Butler

Banal Nightmare
Banal Nightmare

Banal Nightmare

Halle Butler

Paperback | English
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Description

The author of THE NEW ME returns with a hilarious, horrifying picture of a breakup, a college town and a group of jealous friends

Banal Nightmare will end summer with a bang. It's about turning 37 and realising you hate everybody you know. So funny, so smart, utterly vicious - just brilliant

The Feel Bad Novel of the Year . . . darkly humorous and brutally honest

Halle Butler is one of the funniest and most exacting novelists of millennial precarity. Banal Nightmare is worth reading just to experience Butler's virtuosic prose. Deadpan, hyper-articulate, quietly affecting

Butler has crafted a novel in which every character proves to be completely, uniquely crazy. Her sense of humour should be studied and celebrated

So searingly precise in its ability to capture a certain moment or experience that you have to stop every few pages to send another perfect quote to your group chat . . . It will be immediately and uncomfortably relatable to anyone who has spent nights chain-smoking on a balcony, contemplating their own personal, sexual and social mistakes

Highly intelligent, witty and completely precise in its skewering

I loved Banal Nightmare. I was laughing and underlining and laughing. I'm recommending it to so many people. Halle Butler is an absolute genius

In Halle Butler's world, everyone hates each other, every day is excruciating in its mundanity, every thought is the beginning of an Escherian journey round and round in hell, and somehow the whole thing is unbelievably funny. With the force of an episode of marijuana psychosis and the extreme detail of a hyperrealistic work of art, Banal Nightmare attempts transcendence through anxiety and dissociation, nailing a series of contemporary characters - better pray you're not one of them - to the wall

Brilliantly observed and unsparing, Banal Nightmare is an intense, exhilarating, often-hilarious kaleidoscopic inquiry into contemporary relationships. With the comprehensive social gaze of Balzac and the cold logic of Renata Adler, Halle Butler conjures a latticework structure of life, rage, dark humor, and incalculable grace

Oh man, this book! Halle Butler's new novel is a blistering assault on contemporary pieties about art and love, an epic Woolfian tapestry of perfect comic rants, terrifying panic attacks, and, most gratifying of all, sincere attempts at human connection. This is the best, most ambitious book yet by one of my favourite writers

Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare is a masterpiece, her best book yet. It burns with a wild, unforgiving fire, making most other novels seem vague and ho-hum in comparison. This novel exhibits an eerily spot-on understanding of the private mind as it delves deep into an array of lives, revealing harrowing experiences of loneliness, love, heartbreak, abuse, malaise, depression, obsession, hatred, and revenge. No feeling is skipped over. No thought is simplified. No idea is dumbed down. Like a knife dancing through air, it's a manic, nerve-wracking read, painful and so weirdly funny. I felt gripped by it from beginning to end . . . an unapologetic, totally original, modern marvel

Butler writes with a bee-sting-sharp sense of humor and irony, and nothing is sacred, not Hillary Clinton, not Ruth Bader Ginsburg, not Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before Congress. What's most surprising is that this cooler-than-the-cool-kids novel actually has an emotional center that will make your pulse race. . . . A tart, irreverent rant of a novel that takes a sharp turn toward something more serious

The voice of a (tired, furious, disappointed, disoriented) generation

Butler is a master at constructing a detailed social hierarchy of educated women . . . I laughed out loud

A brilliantly funny dissection of adult life. Relatable, even if you don't want it to be

Banal Nightmare is actually funny. Reader, I laughed many times. It doesn't merely gesture to humour. Butler has comic range

Putting a new spin on what it means to be a killjoy, Bulter delivers an emotionally riveting account of modern adulthood

A skilled and clever prose stylist who humanely spotlights the most ridiculous parts of being alive in this surprising and hilarious book

Halle Butler is a writer living in New York City. Her first novel, Jillian, was called the "feel-bad book of the year" by the Chicago Tribune. Her second novel, The New Me, was named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox and a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR, and the New Yorker called it a "definitive work of millennial literature." She was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Pub date
    Jul 2024
  • Pages
    336
  • Theme
    Modern and contemporary fiction
  • Dimensions
    134 x 214 x 30 mm
  • Weight
    334 gram
  • EAN
    9781399618229
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Language
    English

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