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About The Book
Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022 * Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022
'Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny' Observer
Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek's list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however, it's a city with a whole history of reinvention, one that 'buzzes with the American spirit.'
Not everyone agrees though - certainly not the residents of the Rabbit Hutch, a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial centre, populated by a cast of unforgettable, disenfranchised characters. There's an online obituary writer, a woman waging a solo campaign against rodents and, most notably, eighteen-year-old Blandine, recently released from foster care and determined to stop the developers whatever the cost.
Set over one sweltering week in July, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America. Bold, experimental and brilliantly written, it will live in the memory long after the final page.
A Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022
'The Rabbit Hutch is 2022's The Secret History' The Big Issue
A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award * Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize * An Oprah Daily Book of the Year, 2022
A New York Times bestseller, Sept 3 2023
Product Details
- Publisher: Oneworld Publications (July 21, 2022)
- Length: 304 pages
- ISBN13: 9780861543663
Raves and Reviews
'A firecracker debut. Seriously impressive... The writing is incandescent, the range of styles and voices remarkable... There’s so much dazzling stuff here.'
– The Sunday Times
'Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny.'
– Observer
'Here is something new, a first novel with the wisdom and tenderness of a masterwork; an unflinching look at the down-and-outs that continue to rise and rise. The Rabbit Hutch is addictive, mesmerizing and unforgettable.'
– Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf
'Every now and again a debut novel comes along which is so accomplished you almost suspect the writer's name is a pseudonym for a mischievous literary veteran. Sure-footed, richly imagined and highly original, you could say The Rabbit Hutch is 2022's The Secret History… a profound novel full of clever, thought-provoking ideas.'
– The Big Issue
'Original and incisive... Breathtaking, compassionate and spectacular.'
– The Irish Times
'Throughout, tension is mixed with hilarity, heartbreak with hope. It all makes for a gripping, memorable debut full of peculiar wonders.'
– Mail on Sunday
'Philosophical, and earthy, and tender and also simply very fun to read.'
– Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labours
'Gunty writes with a keen, sensitive eye about all manner of intimacies.'
– Raven Leilani, author of Luster
'Just when everything seemed designed for a brief moment of utility before its planned obsolescence, here comes The Rabbit Hutch, a profoundly wise, wildly inventive, deeply moving work of art whose seemingly infinite offerings will remain with you long after you finish it. Each page of this novel contains a novel, a world.'
– Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated
'The Rabbit Hutch balances the banal and the ecstatic in a way that made me think of prime David Foster Wallace. It's a story of love, told without sentimentality; a story of cruelty, told without gratuitousness. Gunty is a captivating writer.'
– Guardian
'Author Tess Gunty has the scope and acuity of David Foster Wallace, without the obscurantism and wilfully slow pace... Brilliant.'
– Financial Times, The Best Debut Fiction round-up
'Strange, exuberant... Stylish.'
– The Times
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