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Oligarchy
Scarlett Thomas
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Description for Oligarchy
Paperback.
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN EVENING STANDARD and METRO
When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst.
While she spends her time with the other girls at the lake and the stables, a hand-picked few are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and quickly the routines of her dorm-mates seem darker and more alien than ever before.
Oligarchy is the fierce new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786898029
SKU
9781786898029
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
About Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her novels include Bright Young Things, PopCo, Our Tragic Universe and The Seed Collectors. She is Professor of Creative Writing & Contemporary Fiction at the University of Kent.
Reviews for Oligarchy
A fast, fizzy read . . . Entertaining, irreverent and wrong-hilarious . . . Hugely enjoyable. It's about as menacing as a cool girl's black glitter nail polish - and just as much fun
BIDISHA
Observer
Thomas's humour has a sharp, rhythmic perfection. Her prose is fast-thinking, entertaining and punchy, her dialogue fully authentic . . . Intriguing, fluid and frequently funny
New York Times Book Review
Wickedly funny . . . Thomas has great fun with the familiar components of the boarding school yarn, even as she subverts them. Her writing is spikily humorous and controlled . . . This jet-black novel begs to be dramatised
The Times
Oligarchy is a delicious slap in the face; stunningly intelligent, alarmingly modern, hilariously funny, deeply pertinent, true, fantastical and several hankies'-worth of poignant
LOUISA YOUNG Riotously funny . . . There are few more vivaciously original novelists around today, and surely none of them is having as much fun while making serious points . . . Quite brilliant . . . There have been many other notable novels about schools . . . but none so entertaining since Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spectator
Wrapping a murder mystery in a wicked comedy of manners, this instantly engaging novel untangles the perverse contradictions of how society contrives to fear, ignore and fetishise teenage girls. Viciously funny, with a killer turn of phrase
Metro
An intricate black jewel of a novel. Weeks later I'm still thinking about it
KIRSTY LOGAN Great fun, a knowing satire of British private schoolgirls, their snobberies and obsessions, and especially their body-image anxieties . . . Thomas clearly knows how to craft a very funny sentence, and has profound insight into the issues she is writing about
Guardian
This is the boarding school novel in the age of #thinspo, Instagram, blockchain and the dark web, all written in Thomas's lush and funny style
Stylist
Slippery, spiky comic horror that has a lot of dark fun satirising the relentless cultural objectification of female bodies, the garish inadequacies of rich but absent parents and the ruthless competitive nature of female relationships . . . Mordantly entertaining
Daily Mail
BIDISHA
Observer
Thomas's humour has a sharp, rhythmic perfection. Her prose is fast-thinking, entertaining and punchy, her dialogue fully authentic . . . Intriguing, fluid and frequently funny
New York Times Book Review
Wickedly funny . . . Thomas has great fun with the familiar components of the boarding school yarn, even as she subverts them. Her writing is spikily humorous and controlled . . . This jet-black novel begs to be dramatised
The Times
Oligarchy is a delicious slap in the face; stunningly intelligent, alarmingly modern, hilariously funny, deeply pertinent, true, fantastical and several hankies'-worth of poignant
LOUISA YOUNG Riotously funny . . . There are few more vivaciously original novelists around today, and surely none of them is having as much fun while making serious points . . . Quite brilliant . . . There have been many other notable novels about schools . . . but none so entertaining since Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Spectator
Wrapping a murder mystery in a wicked comedy of manners, this instantly engaging novel untangles the perverse contradictions of how society contrives to fear, ignore and fetishise teenage girls. Viciously funny, with a killer turn of phrase
Metro
An intricate black jewel of a novel. Weeks later I'm still thinking about it
KIRSTY LOGAN Great fun, a knowing satire of British private schoolgirls, their snobberies and obsessions, and especially their body-image anxieties . . . Thomas clearly knows how to craft a very funny sentence, and has profound insight into the issues she is writing about
Guardian
This is the boarding school novel in the age of #thinspo, Instagram, blockchain and the dark web, all written in Thomas's lush and funny style
Stylist
Slippery, spiky comic horror that has a lot of dark fun satirising the relentless cultural objectification of female bodies, the garish inadequacies of rich but absent parents and the ruthless competitive nature of female relationships . . . Mordantly entertaining
Daily Mail