Synopsis
Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling. In prose alternately stark, lush, and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair.
As in his acclaimed debut novel, The...
Details
04 May 2017288 pages
9781509830312Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Benjamin Hale writes from an altitude that is entirely his own. The view from up there - a hilariously zoological panorama of Americans at their most frail, feral, and blundering - is also entirely his own. The Fat Artist is a brilliant, ceaselessly engaging book.Joseph O’Neill
From Morocco to Montana, and include the tale of the U.S. congressman who expires during a tryst in a hotel room and the adventures of an addict who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid . . . Dazzling.Daily Mail
Hale reveals himself to be a virtuoso . . . [His] prose is so enjoyable.Times Literary Supplement
From an artist who nearly eats himself to death to a woman who accidentally feeds her baby hallucinogenics . . . Fascinating.Independent
