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# Vertigo Paperback – 3 Mar 2016

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        			&apos;Beautifully simple and unembellished, Walsh&apos;s writing - most captivating in its ability to unnerve - is cleverly revealing of her protagonist&apos;s unique and sensitive personality.&apos; Claire Hazelton, The Guardian ---------- &apos;This beautifully wrought collection of stories made me think of tiny French cakes laid out in a patisserie: some tart, some sweet, some with a hidden centre, all beautifully constructed and each one exactly its own thing.&apos; Cathy Rentzenbrink, Stylist ---------- &apos;Vertigo is artful, intelligent ... Walsh is a sublimely elegant writer.&apos; Sarah Ditum, New Statesman ---------- &apos;Splendidly wry and offbeat ... both intellectual and aware. Stories to be digested slowly, and savoured.&apos; Lesley McDowel, Sunday Herald ---------- &apos;Indefinable ... Walsh has a knack of turning the mundane into the extraordinary and provides witty and melancholy insights.&apos; Antonia Charlesworth, Big Issue North ---------- &apos;Joanna Walsh&apos;s haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal vertigo by probing the spaces between things ... Her narrator approaches the suppressed state of panic coursing beneath things that are normally tamed by our blunted perceptions of ordinary life. Vertigo is an original and breathtaking book.&apos; Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick ---------- &apos;Think Renata Adler&apos;s Speedboat with a faster engine ... Vertigo reads with the exhilarating speed and concentrated force of a poetry collection. Each word seems carefully weighed and prodded for sound, taste, touch ... The stories are delicate, but they leave a strong impression, a lasting sense of detachment colliding with feeling, a heady destabilization.&apos; Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times ---------- Her stories reveal a psychological landscape lightly spooked by loneliness, jealousy and alienation.&apos; Heidi Julavits, The New York Times ---------- &apos;Vertigo is a funny, absurd collection of stories.&apos; Maddie Crum, The Huffington Post ---------- &apos;Her writing sways between the tense and the absurd, as if it&apos;s hovering between this world and another ... Vertigo may redistribute the possibilities of contemporary fiction, especially if it meets with the wider audience her work demands.&apos; Jonathon Sturgeon, Flavorwire, 33 Must-Read Books for Fall 2015 ---------- &apos;Less a collection of linked short stories - though it is that, too - than a cinematic montage, a collection of photographs, or a series of sketches, Walsh&apos;s book would be dreamlike if it weren&apos;t so deliciously sharp ... With wry humour and profound sensitivity, Walsh takes what is mundane and transforms it into something otherworldly with sentences that can make your heart stop. A feat of language.&apos; Kirkus, Starred Review ---------- &apos;Walsh is an inventive, honest writer. In her world, objects may be closer and far more intricate than they appear; these stories offer a compelling pitch into the inner life.&apos; Publishers Weekly ---------- &apos;This collection makes the familiar alien, breaking down and remaking quotidian situations, and in the process turning them into gripping literature.&apos; Vol. 1 Brooklyn ---------- &apos;Moments of blazing perspicacity, creativity, intelligence, and dark humour are insanely abundant in [Walsh&apos;s] writing.&apos; Natalie Helberg, Numero Cinq ---------- &apos;If anyone in the course of reviewing Vertigo refers to Joanna Walsh as a &quot;woman writer&quot; or says the book is about women, relationships, or mothering, I will send an avenging batibat to infiltrate his dreams because that would be like saying Waiting for Godot is about a bromance ... No, this book is about how embarrassing it is to be alive, how each of us is continually barred from our self ... Vertigo is a writer&apos;s coup, an overthrow of everyday language ... It feels so good to see Walsh jam open the lexicon - and with such dry wit... No one else has her particular copy of the dictionary.&apos; Darcie Dennigan, The Rumpus ---------- &apos;Reading Vertigo has opened even wider my conceptions of what&apos;s possible in fiction-how a book can be like a series of photographs, like cinema. These stories appear as much as they engage with narrative, saturated with a calm yet rich color.&apos; Amina Cain ---------- &apos;Packs a wallop into a very small space.&apos; Jeff Vandermeer ---------- &apos;Walsh handles the seismic events of life-a child in intensive care, a pregnancy morphing the body-with a sort of alien bluntness and mania for category that forces her language into bizarre, thrilling new shapes. A mind-blowing must-read.&apos; Left Bank Books, Staff Pick ---------- &apos;This is fiction infused with fine imagery, charged with an electric current, shockingly alive to new possibilities of rendering the mundane exquisite.&apos; Roughghosts ---------- &apos;Joanna Walsh is an expert at breathing life into a possibility without forcing it to move.&apos; Heavy Feather ------- &apos;Walsh&apos;s prose is simple but stunning in its precision. Her stories examine the minutiae of women&apos;s experience, the experiences language often passes over too quickly, too dismissively.&apos; Music and Literature ---------- &apos;The stories [in Vertigo] hum together, evoking consciousness-consciousness&apos;s anxieties, desires, its imaginative consolations.&apos; Biblioklept ---------- &apos;There&apos;s a beautiful balance in Walsh&apos;s writing: it&apos;s not showy but has a quiet style; it often raises a smile but one accompanied by melancholy eyes; it&apos;s built from the quotidian material of unremarkable life, but insists we pause and look a little closer. I was tempted to quote the wonderful final paragraph from the final story, &apos;Drowning&apos;, but instead I would suggest you read it as intended, as the last words in this eloquent volume.&apos; 1stReading ---------- &apos;Clear, lyrical prose.&apos; Paper Magazine
				    	
			    	
        		  
        		  
        	
          
              
        	  	  About the Author
        	  
        	  
        		  
        			Joanna Walsh is a writer and illustrator. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Narrative and Guernica and has been anthologised in Best European Fiction 2015, Best British Short Stories 2014 and elsewhere. A story collection, Fractals, was published in 2013, and her non-fiction book Hotel was published in 2015. She writes literary and cultural criticism for The Guardian, the New Statesman and The National, is the fiction editor at 3:AM Magazine, and created and runs the Twitter hashtag #readwomen, heralded by the New York Times as &apos;a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers&apos;.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Unusual
  

*by B***9 on 1 May 2018*









  
  
    There's something about the way Walsh writes that makes me want to elaborate myself, that makes me want to try writing more again. Part of the charm for me really comes from the things that she omits which are often what makes the words feel more important. I won't pretend that it's a way of writing that everyone appreciates, but I love it with my whole heart. I like that it plays with things and doesn't feel like normal writing, and there's even a charm to me in the way that some of the stories don't resonate with me but that I still remember them. A lot of people seem to say that they don't feel like emotion comes through but I think the fact that Walsh dances around emotion makes it come through more than ever, at least to me.
  


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    Five Stars
  

*by H***H on 30 August 2017*









  
  
    A brilliant collection of stories from a wonderful writer.
  


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    Seems like several good ideas that are never fully animated or ...
  

*by A***R on 20 April 2017*









  
  
    Flashes of insight let down by too much waffle and wateriness. Trying too hard to be clever or poetic. Seems like several good ideas that are never fully animated or fictionalised. I was relieved to finish.
  


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