- New York Times reviewed, English literature, City and town life, Fiction
"Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it's at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Keith Ridgway
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, New Directions, Picador
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780811230865
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