{"product_id":"9781250215024","title":"Wait, Blink : A Perfect Picture of Inner Life: A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWait, Blink\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Gunnhild Øyehaug\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Expansive, intimate, and filled to the brim with delight, Gunnhild Oyehaug's first novel is devoted to the unexpected connections between lonesome individuals, mundane rituals, jellyfish, death, oversized men's shirts, and a thousand other things too astonishing to spoil in this sentence. I truly loved this wide-eyed, all-embracing wonder of a book.\" —Alexandra Kleeman, author of \u003ci\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eSigrid is a young literature student trying to find her voice as a writer when she falls in love with an older, established author, whose lifestyle soon overwhelms her values and once-clear vision. Trine has reluctantly become a mother and struggles to create as a performance artist. The aspiring movie director Linnea scouts locations in Copenhagen for a film she will never make. As these characters’ stories collide and intersect, they find that dealing with the pressures of their lives also means coming to grips with a world both frightening and joyously ridiculous. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWait, Blink\u003c\/i\u003e combines wild associations, quotations, coincidences, and other peculiar details into a unique tale that is both humorous and profound. Full of the playfulness that drew acclaim for her story collection \u003ci\u003eKnots\u003c\/i\u003e, Gunnhild Øyehaug’s \u003ci\u003eWait, Blink\u003c\/i\u003e—her first novel to be translated into English—is a jolt of desire and fantasy, romance and regret: a fable about what it means to own up to the weirdness inside us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWait, Blink\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of \u003cb\u003eteeming originality\u003c\/b\u003e that will \u003cb\u003erewire your brain\u003c\/b\u003e and gleefully eclipse whole libraries of lesser fiction.” \u003cb\u003e—Ryan Chapman, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOMB\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003cb\u003eExpansive, intimate, and filled to the brim with delight\u003c\/b\u003e, Gunnhild Øyehaug's first novel is devoted to the unexpected connections between lonesome individuals, mundane rituals, jellyfish, death, oversized men's shirts, and a thousand other things too astonishing to spoil in this sentence. I truly loved this wide-eyed, all-embracing wonder of a book.” \u003cb\u003e—Alexandra Kleeman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIntimations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWait, Blink \u003c\/i\u003eis a \u003cb\u003ethrillingly expansive\u003c\/b\u003e novel filled with giddy riffs on everything from \u003cb\u003ekung fu to the life of mussels in a seabed\u003c\/b\u003e. Gunnhild Øyehaug is one of the most exciting writers working today.” \u003cb\u003e­—Jenny Offill, author of \u003ci\u003eDept. of Speculation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have been \u003cb\u003ecaptivated \u003c\/b\u003eby Gunnhild Øyehaug’s\u003cb\u003e wit, imagination, ironic social commentary\u003c\/b\u003e, and fearless embrace of any and every form of storytelling.” \u003cb\u003e—Lydia Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eCan’t and Won’t \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Øyehaug’s] work is playful, often surreal, intellectually rigorous, and brief . . . Øyehaug is intensely interested in consciousness, and in the pictures consciousness makes; this emphasis constantly humanizes her experiments in abstraction and the fantastical.” \u003cb\u003e­—James Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed National Book Awards - Longlist (2018), Long-listed Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year (2018)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250215024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40708922245326,"sku":"9781250215024","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250215024","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}