All of This Unreal Time
novella · First published 2024
Author guide
Max Porter Books in Order
Max Porter is an English writer born in High Wycombe in 1981. He studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and worked as a bookseller before becoming an editor at Granta Books and Portobello Books. His debut, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, won the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. His subsequent books include Lanny, The Death of Francis Bacon, and Shy. He lives in Bath with his family.
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Porter's acclaimed debut and the clearest introduction to his characteristic fusion of prose, poetry, myth, and grief.
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Novels (6)
- Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
novella · 2015
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable…
- Lanny
novel · 2019
In came the sound of a song, warm on his creaturely breath. My singing child, bringing me gifts. A second or two before I realise it's not him. Lanny ?
- The Death of Francis Bacon
novella · 2021
A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.Madrid. Unfinished.Man Dying.A great painter lies on his deathbed.Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive…
- Shy
novella · 2023
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You…
- All of This Unreal Time
novella · 2024
- Burn and Rave
novel · 2027
Essays and speeches (1)
Other (2)
- Jerome's Study
artist-book · 2018
- The Hill
graphic-work · 2023