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FOE
From bestselling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things , sold in 17 territories, named a best book of the year by NPR & Amazon, a Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and called the boldest most original literary thriller to appear in some time, by The Chicago Tribune comes Iain Reid's new philosophical thriller, a rural suspense
called FOE.
called FOE.
In FOE, Reid's highly-anticipated follow-up, a young couple's quiet, simple existence devolves into paranoia and uncertainty after the sudden arrival of a mysterious stranger from the city. The man hasn't appeared by accident or chance, but purposefully, to deliver alarming, life-altering news. FOE is a taut, rural suspense story exploring the struggle between desperation and fear, delusion and obligation, marriage and individuality.
For fans of of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen, James Lasdun's The Horned Man, and Michel Faber's Under The Skin, FOE is an unsettling philosophical thriller that churns with unease from its first page, and memorably blurs the boundaries of literary, horror, and science fiction.
Told in spare, haunting prose, we find a landscape of isolation, desiccation, and uncertainty, where livestock farming is no longer permitted and summer's heat is unrelenting. The quiet roar of a countryside far from the city, left nearly forgotten; characters so inwardly turned they are nearly mute. It is an eerie, bizarre near-future, not a terrifying one; a rumination on decline and neglect, rather than a fearful warning or finger wag. No matter how open, wide, and uninhabited these fields, all we feel is a growing, claustrophobic dread.
What choices remain when trapped in a future we no longer want? And whom, including ourselves, can we truly trust?
IAIN REID's first book, the critically acclaimed memoir, One Bird's Choice, won the CBC Bookie Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the year and was translated into multiple languages. His next book The Truth About Luck, was named by The Globe and Mail as one of the best books of 2013. Reid's essay, articles, and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications throughout North America as diverse as The National Post, Elle Magazine, The Classical, and The New Yorker, among others. In spring 2015, Reid was awarded the RBC Taylor Emerging Author Award, presented annually to one Canadian author of non-fiction under the age of thirty-five. Reid is a graduate of Queen's University where he studied history, English literature and
philosophy. I'm Thinking of Ending Things was his debut novel and FOE it's follow-up. A third philosophical thriller is planned in this loose triptych.
For fans of of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen, James Lasdun's The Horned Man, and Michel Faber's Under The Skin, FOE is an unsettling philosophical thriller that churns with unease from its first page, and memorably blurs the boundaries of literary, horror, and science fiction.
Told in spare, haunting prose, we find a landscape of isolation, desiccation, and uncertainty, where livestock farming is no longer permitted and summer's heat is unrelenting. The quiet roar of a countryside far from the city, left nearly forgotten; characters so inwardly turned they are nearly mute. It is an eerie, bizarre near-future, not a terrifying one; a rumination on decline and neglect, rather than a fearful warning or finger wag. No matter how open, wide, and uninhabited these fields, all we feel is a growing, claustrophobic dread.
What choices remain when trapped in a future we no longer want? And whom, including ourselves, can we truly trust?
IAIN REID's first book, the critically acclaimed memoir, One Bird's Choice, won the CBC Bookie Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the year and was translated into multiple languages. His next book The Truth About Luck, was named by The Globe and Mail as one of the best books of 2013. Reid's essay, articles, and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications throughout North America as diverse as The National Post, Elle Magazine, The Classical, and The New Yorker, among others. In spring 2015, Reid was awarded the RBC Taylor Emerging Author Award, presented annually to one Canadian author of non-fiction under the age of thirty-five. Reid is a graduate of Queen's University where he studied history, English literature and
philosophy. I'm Thinking of Ending Things was his debut novel and FOE it's follow-up. A third philosophical thriller is planned in this loose triptych.
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Published 2018-09-01 by Simon and Schuster |