BRAT: A Ghost Story
Gabriel Smith
เจเฉเจจ 2024 ยท Simon and Schuster
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THE INSTANT CULT CLASSIC FROM THE WINNER OF THE O. HENRY PRIZE
โFull of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.โ Financial Times
โA moving coming-of-age family storyโ Observer
'Beautifully written, hilarious, and heartbreaking'ย Daily Mail
'A raw, delicate tale about grief and growing up' The New Yorkerย
'Iconic', Radio 1
ย
Gabrielโs skin is falling off.
ย
His dad is dead.
ย
He owes his editor a novel.
ย
His girlfriend wonโt answer his calls.
ย
Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabrielโs sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parentsโ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And thereโs a hideous man in the garden.
Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,ย Bratย is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.ย
ย
From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.ย
โThis original, clever story is brilliant on grief, madness and creativity. Itโs beautifully written, hilarious and heart-breaking. I raced through it.โ Daily Mail
โโFor readers looking for something that will grip you from start to finish,ย Bratย is sure to be your breath of fresh air. The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you wonโt soon shake.โ Chicago Review of Books
ย
โSmith's picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabrielโs foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel's brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.โ Booklist
โ[Smith's] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.โย Kirkus
ย
โIt's a book about loss and the anxiety of the modern age, tinged with humor and deep insight that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.โ Town & Country
'Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.ย Bratย is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.'ย Rachel Connolly, author ofย Lazy City
'Messy with glitched realities and body horror,ย Bratย breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air asย Inland Empireย andย Ubik. Itโs a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut Iโve read in ages.'ย Ed Park, author ofย Same Bed Different Dreams
ย
'Gabriel Smithโs prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.ย Bratย is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.'ย Jordan Castro, author ofย The Novelist
ย
'Gabriel Smithโs jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegraceโs sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is aย Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manย for a new, quaking generation.ย Bratย will unnerve and seduce you.'ย Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted
'Smith's picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabrielโs foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel's brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.'ย Booklist
'[Smith's] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.'ย Kirkus
ย
โFull of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.โ Financial Times
โA moving coming-of-age family storyโ Observer
'Beautifully written, hilarious, and heartbreaking'ย Daily Mail
'A raw, delicate tale about grief and growing up' The New Yorkerย
'Iconic', Radio 1
ย
Gabrielโs skin is falling off.
ย
His dad is dead.
ย
He owes his editor a novel.
ย
His girlfriend wonโt answer his calls.
ย
Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabrielโs sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parentsโ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And thereโs a hideous man in the garden.
Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,ย Bratย is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.ย
ย
From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.ย
โThis original, clever story is brilliant on grief, madness and creativity. Itโs beautifully written, hilarious and heart-breaking. I raced through it.โ Daily Mail
โโFor readers looking for something that will grip you from start to finish,ย Bratย is sure to be your breath of fresh air. The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you wonโt soon shake.โ Chicago Review of Books
ย
โSmith's picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabrielโs foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel's brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.โ Booklist
โ[Smith's] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.โย Kirkus
ย
โIt's a book about loss and the anxiety of the modern age, tinged with humor and deep insight that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.โ Town & Country
'Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.ย Bratย is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.'ย Rachel Connolly, author ofย Lazy City
'Messy with glitched realities and body horror,ย Bratย breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air asย Inland Empireย andย Ubik. Itโs a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut Iโve read in ages.'ย Ed Park, author ofย Same Bed Different Dreams
ย
'Gabriel Smithโs prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.ย Bratย is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.'ย Jordan Castro, author ofย The Novelist
ย
'Gabriel Smithโs jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegraceโs sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is aย Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manย for a new, quaking generation.ย Bratย will unnerve and seduce you.'ย Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted
'Smith's picaresque first novel is told from the perspective of Gabriel, a writer struggling with numerous issues . . . a deeply gothic work that never quite settles the reader in a certain world as Gabrielโs foibles, ghostly visions, and uncertainties filter every moment. Written in short, clipped chapters and featuring uproarious dialogue (especially with Gabriel's brother), this is a darkly comic and brilliantly unusual debut.'ย Booklist
'[Smith's] dialogue shines . . . Readers who appreciate the morbidly funny and the just plain morbid will find a lot to love in these pages. A weird and darkly funny novel from a writer to watch.'ย Kirkus
ย
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Gabriel Smith is an author living in London. A winner of the 2023 PEN/ O. Henry Award, his fiction has appeared in The Drift, New York Tyrant Magazine, and The Moth. He was mentored by the late Giancarlo DiTrapano of Tyrant Books.
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