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02269aam a2200361 i 4500 001 20B450E8F42411EB9533E30756ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210803012850 008 210115t20212021nyu 000 f eng 010 $a 2021001827 020 $a 0811230856 020 $a 9780811230858 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1201298432 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d FMG $d JAS $d IH9 $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR6068.I287 $b S56 2021 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Ridgway, Keith, $d 1965- $e author. 245 12 $a A shock / $c Keith Ridgway. 260 $a New York : $b New Directions Publishing Corporation, $c 2021. 300 $a 247 pages ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a "A New Directions paperbook original." 520 $a "Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it's at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They're on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway's most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell-he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don't know what time it is ..."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a City and town life $v Fiction. 651 0 $a London (England) $v Fiction. 941 $a 5 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023623.0 952 $l VKPE334 $d 20220107011622.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211209010121.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210807010226.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210803014439.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20B450E8F42411EB9533E30756ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search