Nicole Flattery Livres

"A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that women inhabit and the parts that they must play. A sense of otherworldly menace is at work in the fiction of Nicole Flattery, but the threats are all too familiar. SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's girlfriend, the widower's second wife, the lecherous professor's student, the corporate employee. And yet, the genius of Flattery's characters is to blithely demolish the boundaries of these limited and limiting social types with immense complexity and caustic intelligence. Nicole Flattery's women are too ferociously mordant, too painfully funny to remain in their places. In this fiercely original and blazingly brilliant debut, Flattery likewise deconstructs the conventions of genre to serve up strange realities: In Not the End Yet, Flattery probes the hilarious and wrenching ambivalence of Internet dating as the apocalypse nears; in Sweet Talk, the mysterious disappearance of a number of local women sets the scene for a young girl to confront the dangerous uncertainties of her own sexuality; in this collection's center piece, Abortion, A Love Story, two college students in a dystopian campus reconfigure the perilous stories of their bodies in a fraught academic culture to offer a subversive, alarming, and wickedly funny play that takes over their own offstage lives. And yet, however surreal or richly imagined the setting, Flattery always shows us these strange worlds from startlingly unexpected angles, through an unforgettable cast of brutally honest, darkly hilarious women and girls. Like the stories of Mary Gaitskill, Miranda July, Lorrie Moore, Joy Williams, and Ottessa Moshfegh, SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME is the work of a profoundly resonant and revelatory literary voice - at once spiky, humane, achingly hilarious-- that is sure to echo through the literary culture for decades to come"-- Provided by publisher

AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A blade-sharp coming-of-age novel' SPECTATOR 'Confirms Flattery as a bracingly original writer' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'In enviably elegant prose, she manages to be both arch and deadly serious' LOUISE KENNEDY A wildly original debut novel about two young women navigating the complex worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory, and coming of age in 1960s New York New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a run-down apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is turned off by the petty girls at her high school, and the sleazy men she typically meets. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her world entirely: she is hired as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol. Warhol is composing an unconventional novel by recording the conversations and experiences of his many famous and alluring friends. Tasked with transcribing these tapes alongside several other girls, Mae quickly befriends Shelley and the two of them embark on a surreal adventure at the fringes of the countercultural movement. Going to parties together, exploring their womanhood and sexuality, this should be the most enlivening experience of Mae's life. But as she grows increasingly obsessed with the tapes and numb to her own reality, Mae must grapple with the thin line between art and voyeurism and determine how she can remain her own person as the tide of the sixties sweeps over her. Nothing Special is a whip-smart coming-of-age story about friendship, independence and the construction of art and identity, bringing to life the experience of young women in this iconic and turbulent moment. PRAISE FOR SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME: 'A masterclass . . . Bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny' Sally Rooney 'Announces the arrival of a brilliant talent' Financial Times 'Explores difficult questions about self- worth, agency and intimacy with thrilling sharpness' Sunday Times 'Demands repeated reading' Jon McGregor A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: THE TIMES TELEGRAPH STYLIST GQ GUARDIAN HARPER'S BAZAAR GOOD HOUSEKEEPING WATERSTONES i-D IRISH TIMES HUFFINGTON POST UK

„Ich liebe Nicole Flatterys Schreiben.“ (Sally Rooney) Ihr Debütroman ist eine Coming-of-Age-Geschichte über die Freundschaft zweier Frauen im New York der 1960er Jahre. Mae ist siebzehn, als sie anfängt, für Andy Warhol zu arbeiten. Sie soll die Gespräche abtippen, die er mit seinen berühmten Freunden führt. Eben erst den tristen Großstadträndern entlaufen, kennt Mae davon nur die wenigsten. Und doch fühlt sie sich zum ersten Mal am richtigen Ort: Zwischen all den exzentrischen Menschen sind ihre sonst so bizarren Sehnsüchte plötzlich originell und willkommen. In dieser schillernden Welt wird die neue Kollegin Shelley zu Maes Kompass, die Schreibmaschine zu einer Verlängerung ihrer selbst und die „Factory“ zu ihrem Zuhause. Bis sie sich in dem surrealen Abenteuer, dessen dunklen Sog sie erst zu spät zu fürchten lernt, vollkommen verliert. Ein eigensinniger, großartiger Roman über die Grenzen weiblicher Unabhängigkeit und die Unwahrscheinlichkeit guter Kunst.

Das radikale Debüt von Nicole Flattery kündigt eine glänzende Stimme der neuen Literaturbewegung aus Irland an. „Mutig, furchtlos und auf qualvolle Weise lustig.“ Sally Rooney Acht Erzählungen über acht Frauen, die ein und dieselbe Person zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten ihres Lebens sein könnten: Die Studentin, die in „Abtreibung. Eine Liebesgeschichte“ mit ihrem Professor schläft, könnte die Collegeabgängerin sein, die in „Zeig ihnen, wie man Spaß hat“ in ihrer irischen Heimatstadt einen Tankstellenjob annimmt, oder die Lehrerin, die in „Noch nicht das Ende“ ihre Freizeit mit Blind Dates verbringt. Eine dieser Frauen wird irgendwann stundenlang unbeweglich auf dem Badezimmerboden liegen. Für eine andere ist sogar das Anziehen zu einer Quelle der Verwirrung geworden. Nicole Flattery zelebriert den Humor einer hohlen Welt, die kurz vor dem Untergang steht. Ihre Erzählungen sind melancholische Gedankenspiele, grotesk und tragisch zugleich. Mit erschreckender Präzision geben sie das Lebensgefühl einer ganzen Generation wieder und verspotten es zugleich.