· Granta has acquired The Earlie King and The Kid in Yellow, a debut novel by Irish writer Danny Denton. Editorial director Max Porter acquired world Author: Natasha Onwuemezi. The Earlie King the Kid in Yellow Danny Denton. Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King’s daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King’s Eye watches. · The future is most notably explored in Danny Denton’s brilliantly conceived The Earlie King the Kid in Yellow, a polyphonic trawl through the murky waters of a permanently raining Irish Author: Stuart Evers.
Danny Denton. First Sentence: Are you recording now? Back of the book: Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches. The Earlie King and The Kid In Yellow is a tour de force of writing! Danny Denton's prose is frequently breathtaking and I loved his vision of a perpetually rainsoaked future Dublin where roads and buildings are flooded, whole estates have been lost to the sea and, in places, it is only possible to get along the motorway by boat. The Gist Of It. The Earlie King the Kid in Yellow is likely to be compared to The Drowned World.. Similarly, the novel's manufactured language will remind critics of A Clockwork Orange or Riddley Walker.. Although I haven't read Ballard, Burgess or Hoban, they were the books that immediately came to mind because of how they've become stand-ins for novels about apocalyptic drowned.
The Earlie King the Kid in Yellow review – constant rain and mutant slugs. Flashes of lyricism light up Danny Denton’s gripping debut about gangster rule in a dystopian Ireland. Danny Denton is the author of The Earlie King the Kid in Yellow ( avg rating, ratings, 54 reviews, published ), The Stinging Fly, Issue Granta has acquired The Earlie King and The Kid in Yellow, a debut novel by Irish writer Danny Denton. Editorial director Max Porter acquired world English language rights from Lucy Luck at Aitken.
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