Novel by max porter5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation. In Shy, Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny. ![]() He is escaping Last Chance, a home for “very disturbed young men,” and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future. In a work that Porter has called a multi-voice fable a short book which moves between prose, poetry, play script, fairytale and essay a bereaved Ted Hughes. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. Max Porter’s 2015 striking first book Grief is the Thing With Feathers was one of the eeriest, most exuberant and rapturously received fictional debuts in recent British writing. This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone ![]()
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