‘Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.’ Jonathan Franzen‘Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.’ Jonathan FranzenVirginia, 1966. The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, is determinedly fondling Peggy, an ingénue freshman with literary pretensions, in his canoe. So begins a long affair but the two are mismatched from the start.The story that follows rocks the boat in every sense. Nell Zink’s hugely entertaining, totally unique Mislaid explodes the nuclear family and topples every foundation of identity – black and white, gay and straight, “normal” and very very strange…‘Mislaid is that oft-discussed, rarely spotted phenomenon – a Great American Novel. It catapults Zink straight into the company of not only Franzen, but also Donna Tartt and Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and John Irving. Zink takes her big-name predecessors in her stride and goes that bit weirder … An extraordinary talent’ Daily Telegraph‘One of the most exciting debut novels that will be published this year’ Guardian‘A bold new take on the classic mistaken identity plot … Crazy as it is, Mislaid is also an ambitious and tightly plotted novel, a welcome successor to her dazzling debut The Wallcreeper … Her novels are two of the most audacious and exciting I’ve read in a long time’ Independent‘Delicious … Franzen might be right on this writer: Zink has written two books both worth talking about in the best salons in town, which will unsettle them in turn.’ Independent on Sunday‘Zink appears to have sprung fully-formed on to the page, her narrative voice laconic and scalpel-sharp, and often shockingly funny in its dry asides and understatements … Mislaid marks the arrival of an unusual and original talent, one fearless in her approach to language and subject. Where she goes next is anyone’s guess, but it will surely defy expectations’ Observer‘Happily for the reader, the hype is matched by the quality and originality of Zink’s writing … Direct, provocative and self-knowing… Things are never as they seem in Mislaid, a unique romp of a book that takes centuries’ worth of confines and stereotypes and turns them inside out’ Irish Times‘The novel’s charm and intelligence run deep. It’s a provocative masquerade with heart, not just an exercise in role reversals, reminding us that the gaps and cracks between our insides and our outsides are the spaces where our spirits live’ New York Times Book Review‘A high comedy of racial identity … Zink is a comic writer par excellence’ New Yorker‘Funny, sexy and daring’ Charlotte Mendelson, ObserverNell Zink has worked in the construction, pharmaceutical, and software industries, and is now a translator living in Germany. As a writer, Zink founded an indie rock fanzine in the '90s, and published short pieces in a variety of outlets. She is the author of the novels The Wallcreeper and Mislaid.• Nell Zink’s novel THE WALLCREEPER was published last year in the US by The Dorothy Project, a small press and was hailed unanimously as a big literary event. It was picked as a NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2014, Electric Literature’s Best 25 Novels of 2014, Flavorwire’s Best Novels of 2014, and Dazed’s Best Book of the Year.• Nell Zink is being interviewed and featured everywhere – hype is growing in the UK now with a whole-page profile in the Guardian.• 4th Estate will publish MISLAID alongside THE WALLCREEPER with a campaign that clearly marks out the arrival of a huge new talent. This is a debut to match THE SECRET HISTORY (700,000 TCM), THE CORRECTIONS (230,000 TCM), or WHITE TEETH.Competition: Jonathan Franzen;Nell Zink; Nell Zink;
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