Patrick Flanery was born in California in 1975 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied Film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and earned a PhD in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Oxford. He contributes articles to a number of academic journals and he has written for Slightly Foxed, the Daily Telegraph and The Times Literary Supplement. He has published two novels to critical acclaim, Absolution in 2012 and Fallen Land in 2013. He lives in London.
A passionate, gripping, brilliantly voiced and scintillatingly
intelligent novel about that cancer afflicting modern democratic
states - the surveillance of its own people. Were we ever told that
democracy would entail this? I Am No One will get under your skin,
leave you jittery and unsettled, and have you looking over your
shoulder.
*Neel Mukherjee, author of THE LIVES OF OTHERS, shortlisted for the
Man Booker and the Costa Novel Awards 2014 and won the Encore Award
2015*
Flanery is a master of puzzling, alarming and even terrifying
storytelling.
*Guardian*
[Flanery is] gloriously talented
*The Guardian - fiction highlights for 2016*
[A] superbly entertaining novel... a brilliant work of suspense...
Its relevance today is without question, and its du jour subject
matter is persuasively treated.
*TLS*
A hotly contemporary novel by a critically acclaimed American
novelist about creeping paranoia in an age of mass
surveillance.
*The Independent: 'Best of 2016'*
A masterful plot, a terrifying subject, and a gripping read.
*Independent on Sunday*
Patrick Flanery pulls off a rarity in the age of compartmentalized
fiction: a novel of Pynchonesque paranoid ideas, wrapped in
psychologically acute Jamesian prose, delivered by a gripping story
worthy of Graham Greene. I Am No One is itself profoundly observant
about the post-Snowden culture of surveillance, and the insights of
this unsettling novel are ignored at our own peril.
*Teddy Wayne*
This is such a superb, addictive, startling read that it seeps into
your psyche. Read I Am No One and look around you with trepidation
at our post-Edward Snowden world.
*The Herald*
Disquieting... compelling
*Daily Telegraph*
[Flanery is] the author of [three] thoughtful, meticulously written
and slow burning thrillers
*Independent*
I Am No One is a tremendous work of fiction. Its long, elegant
sentences and intellectual inquisitiveness are reminiscent at times
of Philip Roth, at others of European masters like Alberto
Moravia... a brilliant novel that works equally as espionage
thriller, cautionary warning, socio-political j'accuse and-most
rewardingly for me-existential meditation
*Independent (Ireland)*
One of the pleasures of reading Flanery is the tussle between ways
of understanding the shapes of stories and language... he writes
realist novels which show their awareness that realism is a
self-conscious form like others.
*Guardian*
Superb... a brilliant novel that works equally as spy thriller,
social commentary; and an existential meditation.
*Belfast Telegraph*
A smart, chilling novel
*Metro*
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