{"product_id":"9781250192738","title":"Ultraluminous : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eUltraluminous\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Katherine Faw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker's \u003c\/i\u003e\"Books We Loved in 2017,\" a \u003ci\u003eBOMB \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003ci\u003e \"\u003c\/i\u003eLooking Back on 2017: Literature\" Selection, and one of \u003ci\u003eVulture'\u003c\/i\u003es 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Katherine Faw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe author of the critically-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eYoung God, \u003c\/i\u003elonglisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize—comes \u003ci\u003eUltraluminous\u003c\/i\u003e, a provocative and scintillating novel of one woman’s journey through a life of money, sex, and power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGirlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? \u003ci\u003eWho is K?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute called K has just returned to her native New York City, after more than a decade abroad in Dubai with a man she recalls as the Sheikh. She sets up a rotation of clients—all of them in finance, each with different delusions of how he is important to her—and makes time for a former Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan, whom she doesn’t charge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer days are strangely orderly: a repetition of dinners, personal grooming, museum exhibitions, sex, Duane Reades (she likes the sushi), cosmology, sex, gallery shows, nightclubs, heroin, sex, and art films. She finds the pattern substantiating, but does she really believe it’s sustainable? Or do the barely discernible rifts suggest a pattern within the pattern, a larger scheme she’s not showing us, a truth that won’t be revealed until we can see everything?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eUltraluminous\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Startling, poignant, raw . . . The success of Faw's seismic story lies in a protagonist who, however improbably her life, is dynamic, true, and ultimately her own savior. Daring and original.\" —Katharine Uhrich, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Faw’s second novel (after \u003ci\u003eYoung God\u003c\/i\u003e) pulses with an irresistible voice and the sense of impending catastrophe . . . Faw’s writing is raw . . . an exceptionally clear and memorable prose style.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eYoung God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Badass.” —\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Addictive.” —Jeva Lange, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Seductive . . . Reading [\u003ci\u003eYoung God\u003c\/i\u003e] is like having a bottle rocket go off in your hands.” —Lisa Shea, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A powerful portrait of humanity in the face of everyday atrocity . . . It’s a quick read but likely to leave even the sturdiest stunned.” —Eimear McBride, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Invoking the dysfunctional families and bleak landscapes of Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, and Dorothy Allison . . . \u003ci\u003eYoung God\u003c\/i\u003e is boundary-pushing fiction at its best.” —Julie Hakim Azzam,\u003ci\u003e Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sweet Jesus is \u003ci\u003eYoung God\u003c\/i\u003e terrifying and great. Katherine Faw Morris’s style is singular and ferocious and Nikki is one of the toughest, most electrifying, most unforgettable heroines I have ever encountered on the page. This is a furious blaze of a book that will rough you up and reorder your sense of the world and what’s possible in it. It’s a debut for the ages. Read it.” —Laura van den Berg, author of\u003ci\u003e The Isle of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Radical, and at times shocking . . . An altogether remarkable debut.” —Peter Carty, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like a bullet, like a bolt of lightning, like a speeding car, this debut novel goes faster and harder than anything you're likely to read this year.” —Stacey D’Erasmo, author of\u003ci\u003e The Art of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Katherine Faw Morris delivers a brassknuckled gut-punch.” —Alex Houston, \u003ci\u003eNewcity Lit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poetic, grim, and beautifully dark . . . Morris writes with splendid economy, chapters short as contests, and plenty of slashing insights on the rough world of throwaway lives and varieties of wrong.” —Daniel Woodrell, author of\u003ci\u003e Winter’s Bone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed New Yorker Best Books of the Year (2017)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250192738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40708916478158,"sku":"9781250192738","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c3dc030d-336a-4dc2-85d6-c57d1b26e960.jpg?v=1640667791","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250192738","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}