The Voids

"After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the...
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Author: Ryan O'Connor
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The Voids by O'Connor, Ryan

The Voids

CHF 22.60

The Voids

CHF 22.60
Author: Ryan O'Connor
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night listening for human activity, for any sign of life at all. Voids are flats that have been vacated, that will never be lived in again. But there never were any signs of life. Only the wind whistling through vacant interiors."

In a condemned tower block in Glasgow, residents slowly trickle away until a young man is left alone with only the angels and devils in his mind for company. Stumbling from one surreal situation to the next, he encounters others on the margins of society, finding friendship and camaraderie wherever it is offered, grappling with who he is and what shape his future might take.

The Voids is an unsparing story of modern-day Britain, told with brilliant flashes of humor and humanity.


"Reading The Voids is a sensory experience. There is never a word too much, it never lingers. There is tragedy but no melodrama. O'Connor's lightness of touch, the pace, economy, characters... are all perfect, all harmonious, poetic, but unadorned, even in the blackest of moments. Part of me is still in that high rise or watching the sunlight through the fire exit door at The Satellite. It is beautiful and perfect. I want to say this is a book God would like." --Paul Buchanan, The Blue Nile



Author: Ryan O'Connor
Publisher: Scribe Us
Published: 08/02/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.75w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781950354948


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2022
Booklist 09/23/2022

About the Author
O'Connor, Ryan: -

Ryan O'Connor received the Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Award in 2018; later the same year he was Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize short story category. He currently lives in Glasgow with his partner and young son.

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