Will There Ever Be Another You
A Novel
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Descripción editorial
“Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could.” – Vulture
“Bonkers.” – The New York Times
“Reliably brilliant.” – The Washington Post
“A wild, devilishly curious, often hallucinatory ride that’s worth its weight in insights.” – The San Francisco Chronicle
From the Booker Prize finalist and “formidably gifted writer” (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman’s descent into illness and insanity.
Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn’t know who they are.
Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she’ll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. “I’m sorry not to respond to your email,” she writes, “but I live completely in the present
now."
Will There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman’s dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, from one of our most original writers.
Praise for Will There Ever Be Another You
“Patricia Lockwood… writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid.” – The New Yorker
“Completely singular… Patricia Lockwood’s body of work is like this: a hymn—or ode, depending on the day—to the painful project of being human.” – The New Republic
“The author’s fans will find her trademark humor, originality, and depth on full display. This is a knockout.” – starred Publishers Weekly
Praise for No One Is Talking About This
“A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” —The New York Times
“Reading Patricia Lockwood raises questions. Questions such as, How can a person understand both herself and the world with such clarity? How does a person experience things so intensely and express them so buoyantly? Am I laughing or am I crying? Lockwood’s first novel is as crystalline, witty, and brain-shredding as her poetry and criticism.” —Vulture
“Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David Sedaris
“God, is she funny!” —The New Yorker
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lockwood (No One Is Talking About This) portrays the lingering effects of Covid-19 on a successful author's body and mind in this scintillating narrative. After contracting the illness, the unnamed narrator suffers for many months from an array of debilitating neurological symptoms, including short-term memory loss. In an effort to regain her sense of self and return to writing, she attempts "to rewire my brain with mushrooms," but succeeds "mainly in becoming temporarily psychic and reading Anna Karenina so hard I almost died." Vignettes about life during the pandemic touch on the narrator's family, her marriage, and the workaday realities of her profession—interviews, TV adaptations, and conferences where she feels out of place ("If all else failed," she tells herself, "I could say things about Virginia Woolf's heart problems"). Just as she seems to be recovering, her husband falls sick and must undergo several critical surgeries, reversing the roles of caregiver and patient. The narration oscillates between first and third person: "Some mornings she seemed true, and then she was I; some mornings she seemed false, and then she was she." What remains consistent is Lockwood's lyricism, as she renders her protagonist's attempt to form meaning from a profoundly difficult ordeal: "The soul is a floor. It is there to bear us up and keep us standing, not merely to be clean." The author's fans will find her trademark humor, originality, and depth on full display. This is a knockout.
