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Lanny

Max Porter

A devastating story told with the anarchy, the humour and the enchantment Max Porter’s readers will recognise from Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571340293
Date Published
02.04.2020
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Summary

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

Longlisted for the Booker Prize

‘Books this good don’t come along very often.’ Maggie O’Farrell

‘A magically beguiling work, a triumph.’ Financial Times

‘A thing of total joy . . . thrums with rhythm and life.’ Observer

Not far from London, there is a village.

This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present.

It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here, such as the boy Lanny, and his mum and dad.

But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.

‘Startling, moving and overwhelming . . . Wonderful.’ Daily Telegraph

‘A devastating, disquieting and exhilarating book.’ Psychologies

‘Stunning and deeply affecting.’ Nathan Filer

‘A remarkable feat of literary virtuosity.’ Sunday Times

Max Porter’s book Lanny was a #6 Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 04-03-2019
Max Porter’s book Lanny was a #6 Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 11-03-2019

Critic Reviews

‘Max Porter is one of my favorite writers in the world. Why? Because he‘s always asking the most important questions and then finding ways – through innovative structures and that inimitable voice –of answering those questions soulfully, with his full attention, in ways that make the world seem stranger and more dear (or more dear because stranger). He gives his readers, in other words, bursts of new vision.’

George Saunders
Critic Reviews

The writing is stunning and deeply affecting. The plot thunders along. This is a book that resolutely refuses to be categorised but to get somewhere close, think: Under Milk Wood meets Broadchurch.

Nathan Filer
Critic Reviews

It’s hard to express how much I loved Lanny. Books this good don’t come along very often. It’s a novel like no other, an exhilarating, disquieting, joyous read. It will reach into your chest and take hold of your heart. It’s a novel to press into the hands of everyone you know and say, read this.

Maggie O'Farrell
Critic Reviews

Max Porter writes like no one else and it is impossible not to be swept along and astounded. Lanny is a wonder.

Daisy Johnson
Critic Reviews

It takes a special kind of genius to create something which is both so strange and yet so compulsive.

Mark Haddon
Critic Reviews

It shouldn’t be possible for a book to be simultaneously heart-stopping, heart-shaking and pulse-racing, but that is only one of the extraordinary feats Max Porter pulls off in this astonishing novel.

Kamila Shamsie
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Max Porter is the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, praised as ‘a miniature masterpiece’, and ‘a feat of empathy, imagination and literary brio’. His Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Lanny was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and the 2019 Wainwright Prize, shortlisted for the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize and shortlisted for both Waterstones and Foyles Book of…

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