{"product_id":"9781923106017","title":"Tell","description":"Author: Jonathan Buckley\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923106017\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Mar 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I can talk for as long as you like, no problem. You'll just have to tell me when to stop. How far back do you want to take it?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTell\u003c\/i\u003e is a probing and compelling examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own lives and of other people's. Jonathan Buckley's novel is structured as a series of interview transcripts with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe joint winner of The Novel Prize, \u003ci\u003eTell\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of strange and intoxicating immediacy that explores money, art and industry, the intimacy and distance between social classes, and the complex fluidity of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Jonathan Buckley:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Buckley's fiction is subtle and fastidiously low-key...every apparently loose thread, when tugged, reveals itself to be woven into the themes [and] gets better the more you allow it to settle in your mind.' - Michel Faber,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exactly why Buckley is not already revered and renowned as a novelist in the great European tradition remains a mystery that will perhaps only be addressed at that final godly hour when all the overlooked authors working in odd and antique modes will receive their just rewards.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e -\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIan Sansom,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867068321950,"sku":"ADS-9781923106017","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781923106017.jpg?v=1779429215","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781923106017","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}