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    The Yips: A Novel

    By Nicola Barker

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    The Man Booker Prize–nominated novel by one of the most original authors of our time
     Storm clouds are gathering above the bar of the less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel. Stuart Ransom, a jet-setting, supermodel-chasing pro golfer with an extravagant ego and a career nearing the end of a spectacular decline, is drinking his way through the night. Desperate for attention, he strikes up free-flowing conversations with anyone who will listen. But as he banters with Jen, the impish barmaid with a talent for telling tall tales rivaled only by Stuart’s own, the night takes an extraordinary turn. Among those caught up in the unfolding drama are a tattooist with a mad mother and a love of anything from the 1940s; a free-thinking Muslim sex therapist and his considerably more conservative wife; the mysterious Vicki, the sister of Stuart’s defiant yet curiously devoted manager; and a misguided female vicar of the Church of England and her husband, Gene, the Thistle’s hapless bartender. They are a highly entertaining and eccentric bunch, but there’s more to them than meets the eye. “There enter in questions of what it is to be consumed by love or lust, by shame, by the longing to be someone else or nobody” (The Guardian), and The Yips unites them in an absorbing, exhilarating tour de force.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateOct 16, 2012
    ISBN9781453288207
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    The Yips: A Novel
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    Nicola Barker

    Nicola Barker is one of Britain's most original and exciting literary talents. She is the author of two short-story collections: Love Your Enemies [winner of the David Higham Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award] and Heading Inland [winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]. Her previous novels are Reversed Forecast, Small Holdings, Wide Open Behindlings and Clear, the last of which was long-listed for the 2005 Booker Prize. Her work is translated into twenty languages, and in 2000, she won the IMPAC Award for Wide Open. In 2003, Nicola Barker was named a Granta Best of British Novelist. She lives in London.

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    • 4/5
      Surprised at some of the reviews on here. If you think about the cast list of this book you would think that there would be no way that a story could be created that linked them all together. Barker haas done this and done it well. It's a snapshot of modern Britain in a way albeit one in which people seem to be a little bit more literate than the ones I generally encounter on a daily basis myself. If you have read barker before then you know what to expect. It isn't as good as darkmans but it is still a spectacular read. Oh and if you want a story that has some sort of ending then you will be disappointed.
    • 3/5
      Described as comedic in the British reviews, but certainly there's a type of humor that doesn't always work well in other cultures. The book is not for everyone: it's definitely odd, and it's very long. I found it disappointing, but I concede that the fault may be mine. At least it's different.
    • 1/5
      Unutterably dreadful. I am so annoyed at having squandered valuable time and money on this book that I can't summon the mental energy to write a proper review.
    • 3/5
      Difficult one to score. It's a good book and a great example of how you can use dialogue tags other than "said" and get away with it; the characters, for the most part, hooked me, but there are a lot of them and, at times, I had difficulties keeping them and their complex inter-relationships straight (but it's also worth mentioning that I am inept). It's three stars, but it's a high three stars - definitely one to try yourself.