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Description for In Extremis
Hardback. Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? His phone is buzzing, his mind is racing, and he can't concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend's family crisis? Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 605. Clean copy with minor shelf wear fine in dustjacket
In Extremis is one of the most implacable, but also one of the funniest, novels about death and family you will ever read. Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? His phone is buzzing, his mind is racing, and he can't concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend's family crisis? Should he reconsider his separation from his wife? Why does he feel so utterly confused and paralysed? In his most exhilarating book to date, Tim Parks explores how profoundly our present identity is rooted in our family past. Can we ever really change?
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911215707
SKU
KJE0001669
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tim Parks
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan. He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, In Extremis, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the John Florio Prize and the Italo Calvino Prize.
Reviews for In Extremis
The best novel I read this year was Tim Parks's In Extremis, a frantic and minutely observed comedy of family, marriage, life and death. There is something in the synaptic twitch of Parks's prose that brings us closer to the pressures and rhythms of a lived life than the work of any other contemporary writer I can think of
Mike McCormack
New Statesman, Best Books of 2017
Nobody tells this sort of story better than Tim Parks, who has a gift, unrivalled among his contemporaries, for capturing the sheer rapidity with which unconnected trains of thought hurtle round and round in the human brain. The novel is a tour de force of high-voltage storytelling
Mail on Sunday
Head and shoulders above so many of the books turned out by similar writers... Parks, by being funny, explodes all that. This is a wonderfully written novel that draws us close to Thomas in spite of who he is, not, as a lesser author would have had it, because of how he's been carefully curated to be.
Kirsty Gunn
Guardian
Tim Parks is a hugely talented writer, who deserves to be a good deal more celebrated than he is... thematically taut and compulsively paced.
Sunday Times
Tim Parks's brilliant new comedy is an invigorating twist on the male mid-life crisis novel... A very funny, very clever novel that shows with tremendous verve how life is so often a beleaguering collision between the absurd and the profound.
Daily Mail
A frantic and minutely observed comedy of family, marriage, life and death. There is something in the synaptic twitch of Parks's prose that brings us closer to the pressures and rhythms of a lived life than the work of any other contemporary writer I can think of
Mike McCormack
New Statesman
Blazingly funny, full of squirmy physical comedy and weaselly shilly-shallying
Anthony Cummins
Observer
Mike McCormack
New Statesman, Best Books of 2017
Nobody tells this sort of story better than Tim Parks, who has a gift, unrivalled among his contemporaries, for capturing the sheer rapidity with which unconnected trains of thought hurtle round and round in the human brain. The novel is a tour de force of high-voltage storytelling
Mail on Sunday
Head and shoulders above so many of the books turned out by similar writers... Parks, by being funny, explodes all that. This is a wonderfully written novel that draws us close to Thomas in spite of who he is, not, as a lesser author would have had it, because of how he's been carefully curated to be.
Kirsty Gunn
Guardian
Tim Parks is a hugely talented writer, who deserves to be a good deal more celebrated than he is... thematically taut and compulsively paced.
Sunday Times
Tim Parks's brilliant new comedy is an invigorating twist on the male mid-life crisis novel... A very funny, very clever novel that shows with tremendous verve how life is so often a beleaguering collision between the absurd and the profound.
Daily Mail
A frantic and minutely observed comedy of family, marriage, life and death. There is something in the synaptic twitch of Parks's prose that brings us closer to the pressures and rhythms of a lived life than the work of any other contemporary writer I can think of
Mike McCormack
New Statesman
Blazingly funny, full of squirmy physical comedy and weaselly shilly-shallying
Anthony Cummins
Observer