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Burn and Rave
The uproarious new novel from the mind of the number one bestselling author.
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Summary
Meet Lynette – actor, writer, director, showrunner.
It’s her birthday. She’s waking up in a hotel room, hungover, in a dreary English seaside town. Outside are grey skies, crazy golf, a row of Border Defense huts.She hasn’t worked in a while (she hasn’t been very well). But maybe you recognize her from that television drama that ran and ran?
She is about to star in her final movie in her head. But is it a farce, a comedy, a tragedy – or just her life? Knowing Lynette, she won’t go gently into that good night.
‘Burn and Rave swerves around the bends of the human heart, and then miraculously delivers you home. It left me inspired, consoled, and thankful.’ Samantha Harvey
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.
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Contemporary fiction’s bard of ugly beauty and exultant despair.
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Burn and Rave swerves around the bends of the human heart, and then miraculously delivers you home. It left me inspired, consoled, and thankful.
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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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