RISKC.K. Stead
C.K. Stead will be the guest?of the BBC?s World Book Club?on Saturday 1st December
?Risk is an elegant and assured novel. It is a pleasure to read a writer who knows just what he is doing?and how to do it. It is written with agreeable economy, welcome at a time when so many acclaimed?novels are fat baggy monsters. C.K. Stead is a poet as well as a novelist, but there is, happily, nothing?poetic about his prose . . . So much of the pleasure of reading a novel are in the detail ? the observed?or imagined detail, and in the author?s ability to capture particular moments and the trick and rhythm?of daily life. Stead does this exquisitely?
allan massie, Scotsman
?Readers of Capital, John Lanchester?s recent novel, will appreciate this as a companion piece. For?me, it recalls Drabble?s The Ice Age, set in the wake of the 1973 property crash with similarly dazed?characters thrust into wealth for reasons they cannot explain . . . A few chapters in, I found myself in?the grip of an artist with the ability to capture mood and beauty in a sentence?
john gapper, Financial Times
?The gifts that helped Stead scoop the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award in 2010?are underscored here, particularly his lean style: he has the ability to set the scene in a few pithy?lines and condense more telling details into a handful of pages than many writers manage in their?entire chapters . . . he also brings to the table an outsider?s beady eye and an erudite yet lightly worn?allusiveness??
trevor lewis, Sunday Times
?Fine, thoughtful and insightful writing??
eithne farry, Daily Mail
?Stead?s writing offers many pleasures. He has a particular skill in abstracting from a landscape the?features that can sum it up in a handful of words, and he makes some excellent jokes ? this is an?entertaining portrayal of the years of excess and deceit??
n.j. cooper, Book Oxygen
Source: http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/maclehose-press-in-london-are-happy.html
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