Eley Williams

This debut collection from Eley Williams centres upon the difficulties of communication and the way one's thoughts may never be fully communicable and yet can overwhelm you. Attrib. celebrates the tricksiness of language just as it confronts its limits. Correspondingly, the stories are littered with the physical ephemera of language: dictionaries, dog-eared pages, bookmarks and old coffee stains on older books. This is writing that centres on the weird, tender intricacies of the everyday. A bold new collection from one of Britain's most original new writers.

Attrib. and Other Stories

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You are so clever and you know so much, and I often think the only way that I could protect you (if you ever asked [because, you know, you would never need to be protected, and would kick me for trying— you are certainly standing close enough]) would be to snap your head off and roll it out of harm’s way for the nation’s sake. 

I don't know a thing, I wanted to say. I am not very clever but I am affectionate about knowledge. Let's start there.

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