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Will Wiles - Care of Wooden Floors
Released: 06/02/2012
HarperPress
The deputy editor of architecture magazine ICON presents his literary debut, in which a nameless narrator is sent slowly insane while flat-sitting in a foreign city for his composer friend, Oskar. From farcical to fatal, this is a particularly black comedy about control freakery and exquisite interior decoration.
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The Scotsman“Wiles has a strong visual sensibility...” The finale is dark and funny in equal measures, much like the rest of the novel, a debut as crisp, slick and polished as a well-cared-for wooden floor...
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Guardian“A novel full of impeccably stylish writing...” Care of Wooden Floors indicates that Will Wiles has an eye for beauty, but an even more impressive eye for ugliness...
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The Telegraph“This is a smart and polished debut...” A logic of slow-motion slapstick, with bouts of horror, takes hold. As the narrator notes, his story has something in common, in terms of manic sensitivity and underfloor secrets, with Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart...
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