Joe Stretch's new novel WILDLIFE is out now. It is the follow up to last year's FRICTION. Vintage Books.
- get yourself a copy of the book now.
Joe Stretch lives in Manchester. He is currently working on his new novel, The Goal. He sings with the Manchester band (We are) Performance. He lectures in Creative Writing at Keele University.
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‘Wildlife is hilarious, frightening and bonkers, like forcing a sheet of blotter acid into your computer's floppy-disk slot… Stretch's second outing finds the author somewhere between a demented, devilish David Attenborough and William S. Burroughs, exposing the disgraceful, manic behaviour of the strangest of all living creatures: ourselves’
Richard Milward, author of Apples
'Raw, wild, aflame with ideas, Friction will bring a cure-or-kill medicinal shock to our post-boom hangover.'
Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.
'Anthony Burgess is alive and well and still living in Manchester. This is A Clockwork Orange for the 21st Century.'
Nicholas Royle
'Like Houellebecq for generation WHY'
Ewan Morrison
‘Stretch is by no means 'one to watch' - he is one to read right now’
Scott Pack
'Friction is a bellow of rage and disgust at the eagerness with which the 21st century soul attenuates itself. That this trivia-obsessed, pornography-fraught and digitised-to-death world that we have made for ourselves can produce such high art, and with such slicing satirical humour, is one of the central paradoxes, and causes for celebration, of our age'
Niall Griffiths
'Transports the dystopian sexuality of Michel Houellebecq to the throbbing bars of Manchester, where a gaggle of characters numb their morality in pursuit of the ultimate orgasm. Satirically imagining a bleakly banal world of rampant consumerism and pregnancy as the final, putrid fetish, Friction snarls, spits and crackles like an anti Sex and the City or Kafka with cum-shots'
ID magazine
‘The recklessness of the characters is matched by the writing of Joe Stretch’
Arena
‘Vicious, funny and disturbingly honest, Friction is a fine debut from an assured new writer’
Grace Shortland, NEW STATESMAN
‘Friction is a caustic comedy, and doesn’t mark the arrival of a new provocateur but of a promising satirist’
Laurence Phelan, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
‘There are touches of Bret Easton Ellis in this 25 year-old writer’s debut… shares Ellis’s penchant for twisted social commentary’
DAZED & CONFUSED
‘Not for the easily shocked’
Alastair Mabbot, HERALD
‘Joe Stretch takes no prisoners with this debut, presenting a distorted reflection of 21st century Britain that’s as black as it is bracing… Friction succeeds as a highly charged vision of modern society’s moral decline – it’s a novel that may well achieve the cult status it’s striving for’
METRO
‘Friction is really something else… it’s more than obvious that there will be a lot more to come from Joe Stretch in the future’
AESTHETICA MAGAZINE
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