Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and two story collections. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, the Costa Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters E.M Forster Award, and has been long–listed three times for the Man Booker Prize, most recently in 2017 for Reservoir 13. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, England, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters.
PRAISE FOR RESERVOIR 13
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the Costa Novel Award
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2017
Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kirkus
Reviews, & the Los Angeles Review
“McGregor's book achieves a visionary power . . . he has written a
novel with a quiet but insistently demanding, even experimental
form. The word 'collage' implies something static and finally
fixed, but the beauty of Reservoir 13 is in fact rhythmic, musical,
ceaselessly contrapuntal . . . A remarkable achievement [and a]
subtle unravelling of what we think of as the conventional project
of the novel.”
—James Wood, The New Yorker
“McGregor is a beautiful, controlled writer, who can convey the
pathos of a life in a few lines. Despite the large cast of
characters, each feels specific and real. . . . [An] unconventional
but affecting novel.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Jon McGregor has revolutionized that most hallowed of mystery
plots: the one where some foul deed takes place in a tranquil
English village that, by the close of the case, doesn’t feel so
tranquil anymore. . . . McGregor’s writing style is ingenious.”
—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
“Disturbing, one–of–a–kind . . . Most books involving crime and
foul play provide the consolation of some sort of resolution. But
Mr. McGregor's novel, which was long–listed for this year's Man
Booker Prize, shows how life, however unsettlingly, continues in
the absence of such explanation.”
—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
“An intricate and absorbing mosaic–like structure of miniature
stories, scenes and snapshots. . . . While Reservoir 13 starts out
with the familiar hallmarks of a crime novel, it quickly develops
into a quite different literary beast, one that acquires power and
depth through bold form and style, not gripping drama and suspense
. . . This is unconventional storytelling, a daring way to tell a
tale, but one that yields haunting and stimulating results.”
—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“Fiercely intelligent . . . [An] astonishing new novel . . .
strange, daring, and very moving . . . The book is a rare and
dazzling feat of art that also (in my reading of it) outs us, in a
gentle way, for a certain gratuitous drama–seeking tendency we all
tend to have as readers—a tendency that makes it harder to see the
very real, consequential, beautiful, and human–scaled dramas
occurring all around is in real life, in every moment (in nature,
in human affairs).”
—George Saunders, The Paris Review Daily
More Praise for Jon McGregor
“Jon McGregor is a writer who will make a significant stamp on
world literature. In fact, he already has.”
—Colum McCann
“Jon McGregor writes with frightening intelligence and impeccable
technique. Every page is a revelation.”
—Teju Cole
“Jon McGregor’s stories are full of unremarkable landscape,
destabilizing drama, and people— pinned in place by themselves. But
they gleam with endearing detail. His writing is unnerving,
unconventional and lovely.”
—Leanne Shapton
“These stories are illuminated by Jon McGregor’s fearless and
humane imagination. Both tragic and comic, they form a polyphonic
portrait of a people and a place. Exhilarating.”
—Katie Kitamura
“Jon McGregor's uncanny stories linger long after you have finished
them. He quietly inserts distinct, convincing voices into vivid and
compelling landscapes.”
―Dana Spiotta
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