Exciting Times: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 by Naoise Dola

Description: Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan Naoise Dolan explodes onto the scene with Exciting Times, a slyly humorous and scorchingly smart modern love story FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The book of the summer The TimesA sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it David Nicholls Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers lives Irish TimesDroll, shrewd and unafraid Hilary MantelIve been pushing Exciting Times on everyone I know Observer A frankly sensational book Pandora Sykes When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents money, its called a gap year. When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, shes not sure what to call it, but it involves: - a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich children; - Julian, who likes to spend money on Ava and lets her move into his guest room; - Edith, who Ava meets while Julian is out of town and actually listens to her when she talks; - money, love, cynicism, unspoken feelings and unlikely connections. Exciting times ensue. I found myself purring with pleasure. ...This is comic writing at the highest level Craig Brown, Daily MailVery funny, extremely sharp, insightful and raw ObserverFiercely intelligent, brutally funny and written with such heart Nathan FilerAs brilliant as everyone says! I devoured it Marian KeyesA dazzling debut Evening StandardThe funniest writer you will read this year Irish IndependentFantastic MetroConstant fun TelegraphI savoured every shrewd line Dazed Author Biography Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a masters in Victorian literature at Oxford. She writes fiction, essays, criticism and features for publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Vogue. Naoises debut novel Exciting Times was published by W&N in the UK and by Ecco in the US in 2020, and became a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated and optioned for TV. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for several prizes, including the Womens Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Review I had real fun with EXCITING TIMES. It is a very funny, spiky, Marxist, feminist comedy and its really mean. * Zadie Smith *Droll, shrewd and unafraid - a winning debut * Hilary Mantel, author of WOLF HALL *Fiercely intelligent, brutally funny and written with such heart, EXCITING TIMES announces an impressive new voice in literature.Witty, compelling and with a razor-sharp social commentary. I guzzled it. -- Pandora SykesA modern love story ... astute, sardonic and highly emotionally aware ... Heralding for sure a new star in Irish writing * Irish Times *EXCITING TIMES more than lives up to the hype ... Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers lives. * Irish Times *Dazzling ... So brilliantly executed ... Coming-of-age love is told in technicolour ... Banging lines follow banging lines. Your underlining pen destroys the pages ... With EXCITING TIMES comes a rare and indeed exciting talent, a cacophony of our times, a treat for the socially distanced * Irish Independent *Lucky us ... EXCITING TIMES will brighten lockdown ... Very funny ... Extremely sharp ... Insightful and raw * Observer *A funny, smart, contemporary love story. Perfect for fans of Sally Rooney and Emma Jane Unsworth * Sunday Times Style *The funniest writer you will read this year... Every page crackles ... Very funny ... Ultimately a very moving story, one that occupies a small sliver of time and space, but manages a lasting emotional tinnitus ... Naoise Dolan is not the new anyone. Shes entirely herself, and thats plenty * Sunday Life, Irish Independent *A sharp, funny account of a contemporary relationship, told tenderly and with biting, bright insight.Hands down one of the most anticipated debuts of the year ... A piercingly provocative look at modern love and power games. * BookRiot *A funny, smart and sensitive exploration of love, privilege and bisexuality that had me gripped from the first page. Dolans sentences are like a splash of cold water to the faceDevastatingly perceptive and articulate. Its a joy to encounter a book so compulsively readable and painfully funny while simultaneously deeply insightful on love, on sexuality, on social class, on their links as terribly inextricable in the 21st century as they ever were. Dolan is a major talent and this is a formidable debutThis is icily brilliant stuff. A poised and surgical examination of class, sex, language and self-making, with some flat-out enviable jokesRead if you like ANIMALS by Emma Jane Unsworth, TRICK MIRROR by Jia Tolentino, THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath * Sunday Times Style *Brilliantly funny, surgically sharp, furiously political. Expect to hear lots about EXCITING TIMES next yearForensically brilliant - an elegant and painfully funny portrait of greed and hunger, love and indifferenceSo wry, witty and insightfulDolans debut lives up to the hype, a hypnotic tale -- Sarah Hughes * The i newspaper *Were really, um, excited about this sharp, smart debut * Red magazine *A modern love story that will live with you long after youve finished it -- Molly Aitken author of THE ISLAND CHILDFollowing the love triangle between three expats living in Hong Kong, EXCITING TIMES dissects the financial and personal transactions that make up life * Platinum magazine *This debut from Dolan explores a love affair between an English teacher and a banker in Hong Kong and the lawyer who blows the whole thing sky-high. Definitely one to watch. * Stylist, Best new books for 2020 *Finance, sex, cynicism and unspoken feelings are swirled together in a can labelled Hong Kong in this modern love triangle * Irish Independent *Among the most hotly tipped debut authors for 2020 * The Bookseller *EXCITING TIMES is more caustic and cynical than Rooneys writing, if just as clever ... All the fretting over love and class could be compared to Austen or Wharton, but her light treatment of bisexuality and polyamory is utterly 2020 * Guardian *Meet the new Sally Rooney... That might sound like hyperbole but this tale brings fresh and on-point insights into modern love thatll make it a hit with lovers of NORMAL PEOPLE * Stylist *2020 is set to be a huge year for Naoise Dolan * Irish Examiner *Echoes of Sally Rooneys CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS resound in this exacting debut novel * Oprah magazine *Ice cool, self aware and very funny. Shades of Lorrie Moore and THE BELL JAR. * Graham Norton *Dry, sharp, meticulously observed ... A frankly sensational book thats flawlessly executed * Pandora Sykes on The High Low *Half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy CRAZY RICH ASIANS high living - and guaranteed to please * Vogue, Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2020 *An effervescent snapshot of millennial, attachment-avoidant dating * Daily Mail *Constant, breezy fun * Telegraph *A love story about three expats in Hong Kong - teacher Ava, banker Julian, and the alluring Edith - and explores the nuances and uncertainties of modern love * Cosmopolitan, Best Books of 2020 *EXCITING TIMES is a joy from start to finish, and the perfect balm for these times-fresh, funny, sharp. Everyone should read it right now. A literary and hilarious tour de force. * Katherine Heiny, author of Standard Deviation * From the opening page, Avas voice is electrifying and frequently very funny; Naoise Dolans debut novel really is as good as everyone says it is. * Irish Times *I wouldnt be surprised if it emerges as the book of the summer... A rich, sharply witty story made out of the frictions and complexities of young love ... Kept me rapt until the final page * The Times *Ive been pushing Exciting Times on everyone I know: it is the perfect blend of caustically clever and emotionally engaging. Some of Dolans pithy observations of her characters are the best Ive read since Edward St Aubyn * Observer *I tore through EXCITING TIMES, a sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it * David Nicholls *THIS BOOK!!!! Its as BRILLIANT as everyone says!!!! I DEVOURED it and it delighted me with its ideas and made me LAUGH so much and gave me hope. Naoise Dolan is thrillingly honest about class iniquity, sexism, poverty, the after-effects of colonialism - its so REFRESHING. I kept seizing on paragraphs and shouting, THIS!! THIS IS THE THING I WAS THINKING BUT COULDNT ARTICULATE!!! * Marian Keyes *A wonderfully sharp, comic writer, adept at making wisecracks in the caustic, knock-em-off, knock-em-down tradition of Dorothy Parker, Joan Rivers and Nora Ephron ... [Ava] is Bridget Joness sour sister, or Bridget Jones marinaded in vinegar... I found myself purring with pleasure. I loved EXCITING TIMESs snap and its bite ... This is comic writing at the highest level, created with such apparent ease that it seems to dance across the page ... At its best, EXCITING TIMES reminds me of Martin Amiss first novel, The Rachel Papers. In its icy take on consumerism its also reminiscent of Bret Easton Elliss American Psycho. Like both those novels it seems to be brilliantly in tune with its times. * Daily Mail *A Book of the Year in The Sunday Times and a Best Book of the Summer in The i newspaper. A wily, caustic story about young love ... Sentence-by-sentence, EXCITING TIMES is both a joy and a triumph... I delighted in the brilliance of Dolans deadpan style. * The i newspaper *The most talked about novel of the summer * The Sunday Times Style *A dazzling debut... Dolans writing is precise, acerbic and enviably good, and her characters are perfectly drawn * Evening Standard *Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking... Ava is a most interesting literary heroine ... I rarely find myself rooting for a character as much as I did for her ... A whip-smart, funny and poignant story of modern love, accessible to all. It should be on everyones 2020 must read list * Irish Sunday Independent *A fresh and funny debut about love and self-knowledge ... affecting and powerful * Guardian *What sets Dolan apart is her humour. EXCITING TIMES is riddled with snappy one liners and witty interplay. A fantastic first novel * Metro *Dolan is a writer entirely in command of her craft ... The writing fairly sizzles on the page... EXCITING TIMES is an acerbic tale of sex and love, set in the social media age * The Herald Scotland *Incredibly readable * Belfast Telegraph *With Naoise Dolan on the literary scene, there are EXCITING TIMES ahead * i-D *The Irish debut novel everyone is talking about * The Gloss *I savoured every shrewd line * Dazed *A sharp, witty and ultimately moving debut ... Dolan brings a fresh insight into modern love that will inevitably make this a hit among those who love Normal People * Independent *A wry, stylish debut ... In this witty satire of the haves and have nots, Dolan explores tender, insightful truths about the vagaries of modern love * Esquire *Snappy, sharp and smart [with] painfully funny insight that has drawn justifiable comparisons to Sally Rooney * Sunday Express *Naoise Dolans debut is whipsmart, sharp and full of delightfully perceptive observations * Daily Express *A bracing book that cuts through the burdens and excesses of the typical love story to deliver the reader to that rare, real thing: raw thought. Naoise Dolan has an uncanny talent for interiority, and her cool prose accommodates equally well a quickening heart and a mind on fire -- Joshua FerrisA sharp, witty debut. * Stylist *We loved Dolans evisceration of Insta culture - SAVAGE. -- Cosmopolitan * Cosmopolitan *Withering, stylish prose that is at times deceptively simple but always flush with caustic wit, I savoured every shrewd line. * Dazed * Long Description The book of the summer The Times A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it David Nicholls Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers lives Irish Times Droll, shrewd and unafraid Hilary Mantel Ive been pushing Exciting Times on everyone I know Observer A frankly sensational book Pandora Sykes When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents money, its called a gap year. When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, shes not sure what to call it, but it involves:- a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich children;- Julian, who likes to spend money on Ava and lets her move into his guest room;- Edith, who Ava meets while Julian is out of town and actually listens to her when she talks; - money, love, cynicism, unspoken feelings and unlikely connections.Exciting times ensue. I found myself purring with pleasure. ...This is comic writing at the highest level Craig Brown, Daily Mail Very funny, extremely sharp, insightful and raw Observer Fiercely intelligent, brutally funny and written with such heart Nathan Filer As brilliant as everyone says! I devoured it Marian Keyes A dazzling debut Evening Standard The funniest writer you will read this year Irish Independent Fantastic Metro Constant fun Telegraph I savoured every shrewd line Dazed Review Quote Among the most hotly tipped debut authors for 2020 Promotional "Headline" Naoise Dolan explodes onto the scene with Exciting Times , a slyly humorous and scorchingly smart modern love story Details ISBN1474613462 Author Naoise Dolan Format Paperback Short Title Exciting Times Pages 288 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1474613462 ISBN-13 9781474613460 Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson UK Release Date 2021-03-04 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher Orion Publishing Co Publication Date 2021-03-04 Subtitle Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2021 DEWEY 823.92 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-03-08 NZ Release Date 2021-03-08 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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