The Vivisectors
âA novel to marvel atâ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH
âLike Karl Ove Knausegaard at the end of the worldâ SUNDAY TIMES
âAstonishingâ MICHAEL MAGEE
âLeft me awestruckâ HANNAH MURRAY
The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.
In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss. One day, a campus scandal erupts: Adam, a contrarian and the pet student of her boss, comes into heated conflict with a rising young professor, with both men claiming discrimination.
As the crisis consumes the university, Agatheâs boss instructs her to gather information by befriending Adam. Agathe soon finds herself both caught up in the events tearing the city apart and increasingly drawn towards the alluring student at the heart of it all. But can anyone be taken at their word in a struggle over the truth?
Coursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for a broken era. Missouri Williams holds up a mirror to humanityâs most intimate contradictions in a novel of blazing spiritual reckoning.
âA singular brand of Ballardian ferocity â she revels in the wretched and the cravenâ GUARDIAN
âHer prose folds itself into the literary legacy of writers such as Clarice Lispector, Anna Kavan, Rachel Kushner and Ottessa Moshfeghâ OUR CULTURE
âThe anti-feel good hit of the yearâ FERNANDO A. FLORES, author of Brother BrontĂ«
âMissouri Williams writes with a gothic angularity that puts her in a category of one. She swims in deep waters and surfaces now as a major writer for our ageâ PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet Song
'Wicked and beguiling' AMY TWIGG, author of Spoilt Creatures
âExtraordinary imaginationâ AMINA CAIN, author of Indelicacy
âBeautiful, disturbing ⊠I adored thisâ HARRIET ARMSTRONG, author of To Rest Our Minds & Bodies
âA novel to marvel atâ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH
âLike Karl Ove Knausegaard at the end of the worldâ SUNDAY TIMES
âAstonishingâ MICHAEL MAGEE
âLeft me awestruckâ HANNAH MURRAY
The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.
In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss. One day, a campus scandal erupts: Adam, a contrarian and the pet student of her boss, comes into heated conflict with a rising young professor, with both men claiming discrimination.
As the crisis consumes the university, Agatheâs boss instructs her to gather information by befriending Adam. Agathe soon finds herself both caught up in the events tearing the city apart and increasingly drawn towards the alluring student at the heart of it all. But can anyone be taken at their word in a struggle over the truth?
Coursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for a broken era. Missouri Williams holds up a mirror to humanityâs most intimate contradictions in a novel of blazing spiritual reckoning.
âA singular brand of Ballardian ferocity â she revels in the wretched and the cravenâ GUARDIAN
âHer prose folds itself into the literary legacy of writers such as Clarice Lispector, Anna Kavan, Rachel Kushner and Ottessa Moshfeghâ OUR CULTURE
âThe anti-feel good hit of the yearâ FERNANDO A. FLORES, author of Brother BrontĂ«
âMissouri Williams writes with a gothic angularity that puts her in a category of one. She swims in deep waters and surfaces now as a major writer for our ageâ PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet Song
'Wicked and beguiling' AMY TWIGG, author of Spoilt Creatures
âExtraordinary imaginationâ AMINA CAIN, author of Indelicacy
âBeautiful, disturbing ⊠I adored thisâ HARRIET ARMSTRONG, author of To Rest Our Minds & Bodies
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âA novel to marvel atâ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH
âLike Karl Ove Knausegaard at the end of the worldâ SUNDAY TIMES
âAstonishingâ MICHAEL MAGEE
âLeft me awestruckâ HANNAH MURRAY
The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.
In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss. One day, a campus scandal erupts: Adam, a contrarian and the pet student of her boss, comes into heated conflict with a rising young professor, with both men claiming discrimination.
As the crisis consumes the university, Agatheâs boss instructs her to gather information by befriending Adam. Agathe soon finds herself both caught up in the events tearing the city apart and increasingly drawn towards the alluring student at the heart of it all. But can anyone be taken at their word in a struggle over the truth?
Coursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for a broken era. Missouri Williams holds up a mirror to humanityâs most intimate contradictions in a novel of blazing spiritual reckoning.
âA singular brand of Ballardian ferocity â she revels in the wretched and the cravenâ GUARDIAN
âHer prose folds itself into the literary legacy of writers such as Clarice Lispector, Anna Kavan, Rachel Kushner and Ottessa Moshfeghâ OUR CULTURE
âThe anti-feel good hit of the yearâ FERNANDO A. FLORES, author of Brother BrontĂ«
âMissouri Williams writes with a gothic angularity that puts her in a category of one. She swims in deep waters and surfaces now as a major writer for our ageâ PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet Song
'Wicked and beguiling' AMY TWIGG, author of Spoilt Creatures
âExtraordinary imaginationâ AMINA CAIN, author of Indelicacy
âBeautiful, disturbing ⊠I adored thisâ HARRIET ARMSTRONG, author of To Rest Our Minds & Bodies
