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Open Book: Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead

22/05/2022

Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel The War for Gloria.

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel The War for Gloria. Plus revisiting Jean Rhys with Miranda Seymour and Jo Hamya.

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish, the ex-Marine whose debut won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His new novel The War for Gloria explores modern masculinity and misogyny through the lens of Corey and his ill mother, documenting his troubled relationship with his father.

Jean Rhys is best known for her adrift female characters in Wide Sargasso Sea and Good Morning, Midnight. Miranda Seymour discusses her new biography of this much mythologised figure and alongside Jo Hamya, guides us through the important work of the Dominica-born writer.

Plus Booker-shortlisted Maggie Shipstead choses a book she'd never lend.

Books list
The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish 
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish 
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys by Carole Angier 
Three Rooms by Jo Hamya 
Selected Stories, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro
The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead 
You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead

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