Fire Rush Signed Edition
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Mar '23
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023*
Immerse yourself in an electric story of dub reggae, love, loss and Black womanhood
He takes my hand, pulls me to him. 'This is our dancing time.'
'I was blown away by Fire Rush ... Mesmerising, imaginative and incantatory'
BERNARDINE EVARISTO, Booker Prize-winning author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER
'Pulls the reader in from the first page... a fabulous, absorbing read'
MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of HAMNET
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London. A young woman unsure of her future, the sound is her guide - a chance to discover who she really is in the rhythms of those smoke-filled nights. In the dance-hall darkness, dub is the music of her soul, her friendships, her ancestry.
But everything changes when she meets Moose, the man she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.
When their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation where past and present collide with explosive consequences.
'Wrought with an incredible precision and a musicality which carries every sentence'
CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of OPEN WATER
Remarkable... In terms of sheer lyrical force it stands head and shoulders above most debuts. * Daily Telegraph *
I was blown away by Fire Rush - an exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer... her mesmerising, imaginative and incantatory writing leaves us swaying to the bass of the visceral rhythms she so powerfully describes. By the end of the novel, I felt charged and changed and already longed to reread it. -- Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER
This beautiful, sprawling narrative is wrought with an incredible precision and a musicality which carries every sentence. Crooks' novel haunts but make space for hope as well. -- Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of OPEN WATER
A rich and rhythmic story ... Fire Rush is a startlingly good debut. * i *
[A] startling debut novel... Jacqueline Crooks has crafted a richly textured world... She succeeds with great aplomb. * Guardian *
A brilliant, exuberant novel. Full of beauty, musicality and feminist power. -- Irenosen Okojie, author of NUDIBRANCH
Ambitious, atmospheric ... This is a full-blooded novel of passion and anger with a deep, bassy resonance. * Sunday Times *
Fire Rush... [is] a window into the dub scene at the time, with rhythmic, lyrical writing and a story about raving, love and the impact of police violence ... Both a page turner and a literary novel... truly remarkable. * Vogue *
A vibrant journey into clubs booming with music and culture, nights of dance and defiance... Fire Rush is a book with the power to fill and break your heart...it might be one of the strongest debuts of the year so far. * Skinny *
[An] eye-opening, jaw-dropping story. * Critic *
ISBN: 9781787333635-S
Dimensions: 222mm x 146mm x 30mm
Weight: 457g
352 pages