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  • Published: 2 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529112894
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $26.00

Daddy




The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and present.

'Taut, beautiful and savage' Guardian

A man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a violent attack and to make sure his son will not lose his college place. But what exactly has his son done? And who is to blame?

A young woman trying to make it in LA, working in a clothes shop while taking acting classes, turns to a riskier way of making money but will be forced to confront the danger of the game she's playing.

And a family coming together for Christmas struggle to skate over the lingering darkness caused by the very ordinary brutality of a troubled husband and father.

Subtle, sophisticated and displaying an extraordinary understanding of human behaviour, these stories from the best-selling author of The Girls are unforgettable.
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PRAISE FOR DADDY:
'It is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life...brilliant' Brandon Taylor
'Razor-sharp' Evening Standard
'Cline's talent at uncovering the seedy and somehow bringing it to beautiful light is brilliant' Daisy Johnson
'Something about Cline's intimate tone, her talent for conjuring the feeling of being alive, is entirely and uniquely her own' Rachel Kushner
'A stunning collection of stories that plunges deep into the dark corners of the human experience' Dazed

  • Published: 2 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529112894
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $26.00

About the author

Emma Cline

Emma Cline is from California. Her first novel, The Girls, was a Sunday Times bestseller and the highest selling debut novel of 2016. It has been published in over 40 countries worldwide. In 2017 Emma was selected as a Granta Best Young American Novelist.

Her short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and the Paris Review, where she was awarded the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and have been selected for inclusion in the 2017 and 2018 Best American Short Story anthologies. Her story ‘What Can You Do with a General’ was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award 2019.

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Praise for Daddy

These stories live in the odd corners of the world, Cline's talent at uncovering the seedy and somehow bringing it to beautiful light is brilliant. These are understated gems

Daisy Johnson

When I read Emma Cline I think of Mary Gaitskill's psychological acuity and of Joy Williams's sardonic gravitas. And yet something about Cline's intimate tone, her talent for conjuring the feeling of being alive, is entirely and uniquely her own

Rachel Kushner

Cline is...adept at swirling little eddies of unease into motion... [In Daddy] the undercurrents of the unspoken, the unspeakable, carry you along

Holly Williams, Observer

Cline is an astonishingly gifted stylist, but it is her piercing understanding of modern humiliation that makes these stories vibrate with life...brilliant

Brandon Taylor, New York Times

Fans of Cline will delight in the author's razor-sharp observations and penchant for storytelling

Evening Standard

Cline's approach is cool and crisp... there's a suggestive queasiness to these bleak, well-crafted tales

Daily Mail

Crackles with the darkness inherent in everyday relationships. Examining everything from masculinity, male power and the small misunderstandings that can have life-changing consequences

Kate McCusker, Woman & Home

Daddy is a stunning collection of stories that plunges deep into the dark corners of the human experience

Dazed Digital

Cline is particularly good at locking in the witty detail that speaks volumes... These expertly constructed stories withhold key information... the pleasures here lie in an appreciation of Cline's skilful and absorbing craft

Sunday Times