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I Am Sovereign
I Am Sovereign | Nicola Barker
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'An anarchic and lovingly perverse writer.' Ali Smith ‘I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.’ Kevin Barry 'She really is a genius.’ Guardian Charles, a forty-year-old boutique teddy bear maker and wearer of ironic t-shirts, is trying – and failing – to sell his small, characterless house in Llandudno. Avigail, yes Avigail, his estate agent, is trying – mostly in vain – to rein in Charles’s most unhelpful eccentricities, including his repeated recounting to potential buyers of an unsuccessful burglary that took place twelve years ago. When Wang Shu and her daughter view the house, a series of seemingly innocuous events distorts the reality of the characters’ lives, causing Avigail to revaluate her beliefs – and all of the characters to question their very existence. As religious epiphanies bump up against declarations of love, examinations of subjectivity hurtle into meditations on the history of culture, our entire understanding of the book – and of the boundaries between fiction and real life – is radically upended. A tour de force in miniature form that twists the novel into new shapes as the characters sabotage the fictional world they inhabit, I Am Sovereign sees Nicola Barker at her most joyful, provocative and riotous.
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Brimful
I Am Sovereign | Nicola Barker
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Simultaneously a wild romp,a sharply observed contemporary social interaction, a postmodern novel and a wry reflection on the postmodern novel! Particularly enjoyed the interventions of ‘the author‘. Impossible to know where Barker will go next but I am up for it!

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People really do bore Avigail half to death She much prefers buildings. Buildings are just like people but they stay in one place and are generally open and hospitable. And they talk, but only very quietly. in hushed tones.

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This book was a riot. Bizarre in the best way from start to finish, from the characters to the plot, including an appearance from the author herself. Brilliantly entertaining.

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