The Birdcatcher

An exciting new novel from a major voice in American literature - exploring artists in exile, dangerous relationships and the demands of creativity.

Autorentext
Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora (1975), Eva's Man (1976), The Healing (1998), which was a National Book Award finalist, Palmares (2021), which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Birdcatcher (2022), which was also a National Book Award Finalist.

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[Hopefully quotes for this book, but in the meantime, quotes for Palmares]

Praise for *Palmares

• 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend . . . A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodrigues Fowler, *Guardian
  
  'A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill . . . After suffering the author's absence for far too long, we can rejoice at her return' *Robert Jones, Jr, *New York Times***

  'Page after breathtaking page, her prose is intricate, mesmerising, and endlessly inventive and subversive. Palmares is absolutely stunning!' Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

  'A masterfully absorbing, mythic work from a vital voice. The gods have conspired to gift us a new book from Gayl Jones and my what a gloriously eddying read' Irenosen Okojie, author of *Nudibranch

• 'Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery' The Sunday Times