Nick Laird: 9 books

**Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize “Nick Laird’s dazzling poems arrive with a kind of revolutionary candor; a truth-telling that’s political, existential, and above all, emotional.… Feel Free is essential poetry.”—Terrance Hayes** Feel Free, the fourth collection...

An insightful and drolly satirical novel about contemporary romance--"the kind of book Jane Austen would've written had she been male and hipper." -Chicago Tribune Look out for Nick Laird's new novel, Modern Gods, coming in June 2017 With his debut novel, Utterly Monkey, Nick...

**A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with “a wonderfully original and limber voice” (The New York Times)   “[Nick Laird’s] kinetic prose, full of insight about politics, history and religion,...

An inventive new collection by the writer whom Colm Tóibín called “an assured and brilliant voice in Irish poetry.” Go Giants, Nick Laird’s stunning third volume of poetry, is full of "epic ambition." In a collection that’s "easily his most accomplished to date…[Laird]...

Il secondo romanzo dell'autore di "La banda delle casse da morto" è un gustoso e raffinato dramma psicologico ambientato nella Londra di oggi. David Pinner, trentacinquenne di scarso fascino e blogger frustrato, incontra dopo anni Ruth Marks, una sua ex insegnante, donna di gran classe...

Danny Williams, ventisette anni, vive a Londra e fa l’avvocato in un prestigioso studio legale: ha una casa di proprietà, un ottimo stipendio, ed è sicuro di essersi lasciato alle spalle la vita proletaria, turbolenta e provinciale del paesino dell’Irlanda del Nord da cui proviene. Finché un...

Danny Williams didn't mean to be a lawyer, but somehow he is -- and for up to eighteen hours a day. He's well paid, home owning, and twenty-seven but is also overworked, lonely, and frequently stoned. The plan was to leave the troubles of a small town in Northern Ireland for the big city in England,...

Easter Parade, uscito originariamente nel 1976, è un romanzo esemplare della sensibilità di Yates: una saga familiare senza concessioni al romanticismo, un limpido ritratto di esistenze borghesi in bilico tra la mediocrità e le aspirazioni. Le protagoniste sono sue sorelle, dal carattere diverso...

The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries:...