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Murmur
Will Eaves
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Description for Murmur
Paperback.
Winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize
Winner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize
Shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Prize
Longlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize
Taking its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing, Murmur is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with love, honour and a rigorous, unsentimental curiosity about the ways in which we perceive ourselves and the world.
Formally audacious, daring in its intellectual inquiry and unwaveringly humane, Will Eaves's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786899378
SKU
9781786899378
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About Will Eaves
Will Eaves is the author of five novels, including Murmur, and two collections of poems. Previously Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement, he now teaches writing at the University of Warwick. His work has appeared in the Guardian and the New Yorker and been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Encore Award. Murmur won the Wellcome ... Read more
Reviews for Murmur
A really extraordinary book, unlike any other
MAX PORTER The premise is startlingly ambitious: what if we could think our way into Alan Turing's dreams? . . . Scrupulous, humane, sad and strange, [Murmur] is as bracingly intelligent as it is brave
Guardian
Ambitious . . . Boldly different . . . ... Read more
MAX PORTER The premise is startlingly ambitious: what if we could think our way into Alan Turing's dreams? . . . Scrupulous, humane, sad and strange, [Murmur] is as bracingly intelligent as it is brave
Guardian
Ambitious . . . Boldly different . . . ... Read more