RICHARD FLANAGAN's seven novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Gould's Book of Fish and the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.
“Flanagan is one of our greatest living novelists, able to tackle
material so wrenching that you can’t stop reading.” —Bethanne
Patrick, Washington Post
“The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, like Jonathan Franzen’s best
novels, quietly traces a societal rift around wealth and what
amounts to a ‘good life’ . . . In the end, like Flanagan’s best
work the novel grounds itself in humane ideals. Love. Hope.
Dignity.” —New York Times Book Review
“What an astonishing book this is . . . Masterful . . . This novel
is a revelation and triumph, from a writer demonstrating, yet
again, the depths of his talent, while revelling in a new,
unfamiliar register. It is at once timely and timeless, full of
despair but leavened by hope, angry and funny and sad and a bit
magical.” —Sydney Morning Herald
“Superb . . . It is a remarkable book and it serves Literature in
the most insistent, dedicated, and demanding manner. Any novelist
writing at this moment should write in such a way that no reader
can remain indifferent or feign ignorance of our role in the
subjugation of the world . . . Flanagan’s novel is brave enough to
say It’s not about us any more. It really isn’t.”—Joy Williams,
Book Post
“One of the most profound, moving novels I’ve ever read, a true
masterpiece.”—Cherilyn Parsons, LitHub
“Gorgeous, mesmerizing . . . Reading Flanagan is like watching
Federer at Wimbledon: he can do pretty much anything on the page
and make it look easy, elegant . . . Flanagan never misses a beat.
His language is drum-tight, his ear for prose rhythms impeccable .
. . Flanagan has given us a novel that’s inventive and lyrical, a
dark meditation on where we are and where we may be headed. The
Living Sea of Waking Dreams is his finest work yet.”
—Hamilton Cain, Harvard Review
“Flanagan writes movingly . . . His poetic prose and rigorously
argued points make this novel hard to dismiss. At its strongest,
the book poses an important question: What constitutes dignity? . .
. How do our actions and motivations compromise the health of those
around us? It’s a question a year of unrelenting darkness has made
all the more critical.”
—Michael Magras, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Provocative and disturbing . . . Vivid . . . A kaleidoscopic
novel.”
—David L. Ulin, 4Columns
“Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the
world today—I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea
of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent, and important book about
our broken and confusing age.”
—James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd’s Life
“Peculiar and bewitching . . . The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a
powerful rumination on frailty and mortality.”—Sarah Rachel
Egelman, Book Reporter
“Writers the world over are grappling with a version of this
question: in the face of so much devastation, so much terror, what
can fiction possibly achieve? The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is
Flanagan’s emphatic, wrenching answer.” —Guardian Australia
“Like Richard Powers’s The Overstory, this is a timely,
unforgettable work of climate fiction.” —Booklist (starred)
“A fiercely well-observed account of the psychological twists and
turns, the stress points and the double-binds of familial love.”
—Daily Telegraph
“His prose has a pyrotechnic brilliance.” —Mail on Sunday
“The brilliance of Flanagan’s story and the deep power of this
novel is in our witnessing of the end of the world . . . In The
Living Sea of Waking Dreams it is a matriarch rather than a
patriarch slowly, messily and unevenly passing out of the world
[but] in this respect Flanagan’s novel resembles Jonathan Franzen’s
The Corrections or HBO’s Succession.” —The Conversation
“Utterly dazzling.” —SFX
“It concludes, astonishingly for a story about our flaws, our
blindnesses—the individual and collective fiasco that has brought
us to this point—with a message of hope.” —The Weekend
Australian
“Unforgettable . . . Flanagan shines in his fierce, surrealistic
look at a family’s dissolution in a recognizable if dystopian
Australia that’s ravaged by wildfires.” —Publishers Weekly
(starred)
“Like Richard Powers’s The Overstory, this is a timely,
unforgettable work of climate fiction.” —Booklist (starred)
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