Electricity: Film Tie-in - Softcover

Ray Robinson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447274946 ISBN 13: 9781447274940

Publisher: Picador USA, 2014

Synopsis

Electricity

About this title

About the Author:

Ray Robinson was born in North Yorkshire in 1971. He trained as a graphic designer and spent many years living in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. An award-winning short story writer, he is currently writing his second novel. He lives in London.

Review:

"Fast, furious plot, kaleidoscopic Imagery, blunt observations and a wry, ingenuous, hugely compassionate heroine make Electricity a breathtaking assault on the senses." -- Catherine Taylor

"A thorny, uncompromising novel, with attitude. It is also, thanks to Lily O'Connor--its sharp-edged, hard-living, tough-talking narrator--mesmerizing, uplifting, and unexpectedly tender." -- Jim Crace

"As a neurologist, I was astonished by how vividly Ray Robinson portrays one woman's struggle with epilepsy, and the way it affected her already difficult life and the perceptions of those around her. As a reader, I was deeply moved by his young heroine's determination to live life as big as she can. This is a story of risk and redemption and is moving, disturbing, and inspirational at the same time." -- Carl W. Bazil, M.D., Ph.D.

"A quest, narrated in Lily's engagingly unsentimental voice . . . Hallucinatory flashbacks, downward-counting chapter numbering, pages of jagged typography, Icons of Lily's pills showing time passing, are used to illustrate the way Lily's fits shape her life and perceptions. Hours and days vanish, and have to be reconstructed from the unreliable accounts of others. . . . Electricity is a powerful, passionate, and informative book." -- Roly Allen

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1447274946
• ISBN 13: 9781447274940
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336