Grimmish

ISBN: 1552454665

Author: Winkler, Michael

Condition: New

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDPain was Joe Grims self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being.A superstar boxer who rarely won a fight, Grim distinguished himself for his extraordinary ability to withstand physical punishment.In this wild and expansive novel, Michael Winkler moves between the present day and Grims 1908-09 tour of Australia, bending genres and histories into a kaleidoscopic investigation of pain, masculinity, and narrative.Pain is often said to defy the limits of language. And yet Grimmish suggests that pain - physical and mental - is also the most familiar and universal human condition; and, perhaps, the secret source of our impulse to tell stories.A powerful blast of literary ingenuity and originality. - Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip"Grimmish meets a need I didn't even know I had. I lurched between bursts of wild laughter, shudders of horror, and gasps of awe at Winklers verbal command: the freshness and muscle of his verbs, the unstoppable flow of his images, the bizarre wit of the language of pugilism-and all the while, a moving subterranean glint of strange masculine tenderness." - Helen GarnerAll the makings of a cult classic. Its grotesque and gorgeous, smart and searching. - Beejay Silcox, The Guardian