A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author otherwise known as Lemony Snicket
Daniel Handler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Why We Broke Up, Adverbs, The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour? and a sequence of children’s novels collectively entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco.
Honest and funny, dark and painful, We Are Pirates reads like the
result of a nightmarish mating experiment between Joseph Heller and
Captain Jack Sparrow.? It’s the strangest, most brilliant offering
yet from the mind behind Lemony Snicket
*Neil Gaiman*
Beneath all the trappings of make-believe and fancy dress, there is
a poignant, serious story about a girl’s need to find her true
self, shackled to her desire to escape from the world – and the
irreconcilable, sometimes bloody conflict between those two
yearnings … Although We Are Pirates is as ragged and slapdash as
its crew, its voyage is no less joyful or defiant
*Daily Telegraph*
Daniel Handler turns whimsy into wisdom and the fantastic into the
great. He is, of course, a genius
*Lorrie Moore*
This, his fifth novel for adults, retains the whimsy, intrigue and
high camp of his children’s fiction … Silly but poignant ****
*Sunday Telegraph*
Shaped by a wild imagination … It’s funny and outrageous – a plea
for the possibility of adventure, superbly imagined
*The Times*
It’s been a long time since I read a book quite as crazy as We Are
Pirates. It manages to be funny, weird, dark and moving all at
once. It’s a wild and anarchic ride, as gleefully out-of-step with
much literary fiction as a pirate galleon amid a fleet of sailing
dinghies, and all the better for it. I loved it
*Matt Haig, author of The Humans*
A tale that hovers somewhere between realism and fantasy. Full of
sharp (and angry) observations about modern life, We Are Pirates is
strange, dark and subversive
*Financial Times*
Displaying typically impudent imagination, Handler choreographs
this quixotic whimsy with a dexterous touch and flashes of wit …
While the novel builds to a thrillingly mounted and surprisingly
emotive climax, the absence of sympathetic characters to root for
also holes it below the waterline and leaves it and its cargo of
rich prose stranded some way from port
*Sunday Times*
A madcap, disturbingly funny novel that teeters on the edge of the
surreal, even as it asks us to examine who and what we value
*Observer*
Gloriously cut loose from much in the current book market, We Are
Pirates is a pirate adventure for grown-ups set in modern-day San
Francisco … A swashbuckling, wonderfully eccentric message in a
bottle for those seeking a social order beyond the realm of
traditional authority … Hilarious and haunting
*Independent on Sunday*
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