Shy: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Apr 2023 · Faber & Faber
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY
'Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS
'Beautiful and haunting.' KEVIN BARRY
'The strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.' IAN RANKIN
'A miracle of language.' IRISH TIMES
This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a teenage boy.
He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.
He is feeling a little sorry for himself.
Shy is a novel about imagination, guilt and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.
'Contemporary fiction's bard of ugly beauty and exultant despair.' NEW YORKER
'An act of humanity and grace, heightened by its distinctive form and artistry.' TELEGRAPH
Max Porter's book Shy was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 08-04-2023
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY
'Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS
'Beautiful and haunting.' KEVIN BARRY
'The strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.' IAN RANKIN
'A miracle of language.' IRISH TIMES
This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a teenage boy.
He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.
He is feeling a little sorry for himself.
Shy is a novel about imagination, guilt and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.
'Contemporary fiction's bard of ugly beauty and exultant despair.' NEW YORKER
'An act of humanity and grace, heightened by its distinctive form and artistry.' TELEGRAPH
Max Porter's book Shy was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 08-04-2023
About the author
Max Porter is the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, Lanny, a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the recipient of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. His work has been translated into thirty-three languages.
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