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`Full of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.' Financial Times?`A moving coming-of-age family story' Observer???'Iconic', Radio 1I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examinationroom. ?Gabriel's skin is falling off. ?His dad is dead. ?He owes his editor a novel. ?His girlfriend won't answer his calls. ?Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel's sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents' old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there's a hideous man in the garden. Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,?Brat?is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.??From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.?`This original, clever story is brilliant on grief, madness and creativity. It's beautifully written, hilarious and heart-breaking. I raced through it.' Daily Mail'Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.?Brat?is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.'?Rachel Connolly, author of?Lazy City'Messy with glitched realities and body horror,?Brat?breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as?Inland Empire?and?Ubik. It's a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I've read in ages.'?Ed Park, author of?Same Bed Different Dreams?'Gabriel Smith's prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.?Brat?is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.'?Jordan Castro, author of?The Novelist?'Gabriel Smith's jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace's sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a?Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?for a new, quaking generation.?Brat?will unnerve and seduce you.'?Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted?
Binding: Hardback
Binding: Hardback