Reproduction by Ian Williams (English) Paperback Book

Description: Reproduction by Ian Williams A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams own, Reproduction explores unconventional connections and brilliantly redefines family. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint. Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences that have some unexpected results. Fast-forward, their son Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant sons fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicias life at a typically inopportune moment, the books exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is revealed. Author Biography Multi award-winning poet, short story writer, and novelist Ian Williams was named one of the ten Canadian writers to watch out for by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2018. Williams holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto and is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing programme at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Reproduction, his debut novel, won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize - the highest accolade for literature in Canada. Review Captivating . . . Theres a fluidity and zest to Williamss insightful writing . . . A finely balanced novel -- Colin Grant * Guardian *Vastly enjoyable . . . Top-notch comic dialogue makes this light-footed navigation of race and gender politics fizz on the page -- Anthony Cummins * Daily Mail *[An] extremely funny Canadian debut about the decades-long fallout from an ill-advised hook-up between a young Caribbean student and an older white businessman, each grieving the loss of a parent. Pure pleasure, line after pitch-perfect line * Daily Mail * Long Description WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint. Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences that have some unexpected results.Fast-forward, their son Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant sons fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicias life at a typically inopportune moment, the books exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is revealed. Review Quote Reproduction is many things at once. Its an engrossing story of disparate people brought together and also a masterful unfolding of unexpected connections and collisions between and across lives otherwise separated by race, class, gender and geography. Its a pointed and often playful plotting out of individual and shared stories in the close spaces of hospital rooms, garages, mansions and apartments, and a symphonic performance of resonant and dissonant voices, those of persons wanting to impress, persuade, deny, or beguile others, and always trying againWitty, playful, and disarmingly offbeat - even as it hums with serious themes - Toronto StarA sprawling novel that is both funny and poignant, powerful and playful - Calgary Herald Reproduction is reminiscent of Miriam Toewss novel All My Puny Sorrows in its balance between grief and humour. Its an intergenerational story told in an unexpected way - Quill & Quire Promotional "Headline" A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams own, Reproduction explores unconventional connections and brilliantly redefines family. Details ISBN0349701814 Author Ian Williams Pages 464 Year 2021 ISBN-10 0349701814 ISBN-13 9780349701813 Publication Date 2021-09-23 Format Paperback Language English UK Release Date 2021-09-23 Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher Dialogue Imprint Dialogue Books DEWEY 813.6 Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-01-10 AU Release Date 2022-01-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133183272;

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