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Description for Marry Me
Hardback. Suitable for those who is, has ever been, or might one day be married. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Essential reading for anyone who is, has ever been, or might one day be married.
Essential reading for anyone who is, has ever been, or might one day be married.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857868497
SKU
KMK0007103
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Dan Rhodes
Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He is the author of six other books: Anthropology, Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love, Timoleon Vieta Come Home, Gold, Little Hands Clapping and, writing as Danuta de Rhodes, The Little White Car. In 2003 he was named by Granta magazine as one of their Twenty Best of Young British Novelists and in 2010 by the Daily Telegraph as one of their Best British Novelists Under Forty. He is the winner of many awards including the Author's Club First Novel Award and the E.M. Forster Award. He lives in Derbyshire.
Reviews for Marry Me
Savagely funny, startlingly original
The Times
One of the most inventive authors around
Heat
Oh, how we love Dan Rhodes . . . Reliably odd but fabulous
Guardian
Rhodes is that real, rare thing - a natural storyteller
Sunday Times
My favourite writer who isn't dead
STEWART LEE A literary treasure
LOUIS DE BERNIERES Dan Rhodes is a true original, with a fresh, funny, quirky style that seems to owe nothing to other writers and everything to his own powers of invention
HILARY MANTEL Marriage, in these stories, is a process that reveals glaring blind spots in relationships, to comic, tragic and sometimes bizarre effect.
Ted Hodgkinson
Granta
Few writers can match Rhodes gag for gag; fewer still can match his effortless creation of a fully realised fictional universe.
Stuart Evers
Daily Telegraph
Rhodes's gift is to sketch a situation deadpan, and to imply the world it arises from. Taken individually, many of them could be the script for a gag cartoon or a bit in a standup routine, but in aggregate, they build up to a worldview: quirky, jaded, and yet strangely tender. They provoke a curdled eye-boggle of recognition, a yelp of laughter, a groan.. or - the best of them - a sense of restrained but accepting melancholy
Sam Leith
The Guardian
Rhodes has conjured an unmissable treat...
We Love This Book
Rhodes is brilliant at overturning convention and expected emotion. He takes an idea and elopes with it.
Kate Kellaway
The Observer
...they pack an elegant, occasionally devastating, punch
Alice Jones
the Independent
Rhodes has conjured an unmissable treat for fans of microfiction, beautiful books and quirky writing
We Love this Book
Weird and wonderful . . . The perfect quirky Valentine's Day gift for the literary lover in your life
Heat
Rhodes's lightness of touch, haiku-like brevity and willingness to break out the odd moment of romantic optimism makes for a fun, angst-free read
Metro
Taken individually, the stories iunvariably raise a chuckle, usually accompanied by a wince and an involuntary acknowledgement of the truth behind the sloppy stuff of romance. But more impressively, when taken as a whole, Marry Me amounts to a bleak yet funny world view, as if PG Wodehouse and Graham Greene had got together to form a greetings card company
Independent
The perfect way to while away a wintry afternoon
Bookmunch
Few writers can match Rhpdes gag for gag; fewer still can match his effortless creation of a fully realised fictional universe
Stuart Evers
Daily Telegraph
The Times
One of the most inventive authors around
Heat
Oh, how we love Dan Rhodes . . . Reliably odd but fabulous
Guardian
Rhodes is that real, rare thing - a natural storyteller
Sunday Times
My favourite writer who isn't dead
STEWART LEE A literary treasure
LOUIS DE BERNIERES Dan Rhodes is a true original, with a fresh, funny, quirky style that seems to owe nothing to other writers and everything to his own powers of invention
HILARY MANTEL Marriage, in these stories, is a process that reveals glaring blind spots in relationships, to comic, tragic and sometimes bizarre effect.
Ted Hodgkinson
Granta
Few writers can match Rhodes gag for gag; fewer still can match his effortless creation of a fully realised fictional universe.
Stuart Evers
Daily Telegraph
Rhodes's gift is to sketch a situation deadpan, and to imply the world it arises from. Taken individually, many of them could be the script for a gag cartoon or a bit in a standup routine, but in aggregate, they build up to a worldview: quirky, jaded, and yet strangely tender. They provoke a curdled eye-boggle of recognition, a yelp of laughter, a groan.. or - the best of them - a sense of restrained but accepting melancholy
Sam Leith
The Guardian
Rhodes has conjured an unmissable treat...
We Love This Book
Rhodes is brilliant at overturning convention and expected emotion. He takes an idea and elopes with it.
Kate Kellaway
The Observer
...they pack an elegant, occasionally devastating, punch
Alice Jones
the Independent
Rhodes has conjured an unmissable treat for fans of microfiction, beautiful books and quirky writing
We Love this Book
Weird and wonderful . . . The perfect quirky Valentine's Day gift for the literary lover in your life
Heat
Rhodes's lightness of touch, haiku-like brevity and willingness to break out the odd moment of romantic optimism makes for a fun, angst-free read
Metro
Taken individually, the stories iunvariably raise a chuckle, usually accompanied by a wince and an involuntary acknowledgement of the truth behind the sloppy stuff of romance. But more impressively, when taken as a whole, Marry Me amounts to a bleak yet funny world view, as if PG Wodehouse and Graham Greene had got together to form a greetings card company
Independent
The perfect way to while away a wintry afternoon
Bookmunch
Few writers can match Rhpdes gag for gag; fewer still can match his effortless creation of a fully realised fictional universe
Stuart Evers
Daily Telegraph