Review
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"... composed in sentences that border on pure poetry exactly
the kind of unusual, exciting book that indie publishers like
Influx Press excel at producing." Amy's Ever-Growing Bookshelf
"The debut collection of short stories fixates on the briefest
moments of confusion and miscommunication the kind of exchanges
that feel so vivid, but look so mundane from the outside...
Williams brings these moments of internal intensity into the
spotlight, with 170 pages that positively glow." --Fader
"Fiddling with words, as if playing with them were all that
mattered, her characters draw time to a standstill then they
stop, suddenly, blinking and thrilled. It's beautiful, the way
they get lost." The Guardian
"Funny, playful and utterly bravura, it deserves to be read by
everyone with a love of words and an interest in the way deftly
wielded language and original ideas can come together to detonate
on the page." Melissa Harrison, Financial Times
"It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this
book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." Max
Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers
"The possibilities these stories imply are many, one of them
being that you, the reader, could be their unnamed narrator.
That's why, like all good literature, they feel so personal,
immediate and incredibly urgent." New Humanist
"Williams' writerly roots in poetry and poetic prose shine
throughout this stunning collection of almost intimidatingly
intelligent and creative work." Mslexia"So good it makes me
giddy. For God's sake, buy a copy." Caught by the River
"...a joyous collection of moments, of love, of language, with
such a light, skilled touch." Aliya Whiteley, author of The
Beauty
"These are stories that are so repeatedly re-readable for their
humour, their humanity and their sheer revelry in the textual
matter of the language from which they are made: the physical,
pleasurable, palpable, enigmatic and unguent words and all they
carry with them." The Contemporary Small Press
Williams USP (even, at times, brilliance), is to drop us in on
lives at seemingly innocuous moments - and then wrong-foot the
reader, contort the unfolding story, and ultimately distil
something elemental from the seemingly banal." 3:AM
"Nearly every sentence here dazzles with somersaults. Minor
Literature(s
)"Williams writing is emotionally engaged and linguistically
playful. This collection has been highly accled for all the
right reasons it is gorgeous, moving, intelligent, it contains
striking images and nuanced emotion." Triumph of the Now
"Attrib. especially works as a series of beautifully written
detached vignettes upon the themes of language and love. And what
finer themes are there?" Turnaround Blog
"The stories in Attrib. are such treats they deserve to be read
like a properly made coffee: don t take too much at once; enjoy
in your favourite place; let each story percolate." The Fountain
"Williams has a completely unique voice and explores language
with a quirky, intelligent hand. These stories are impulsive,
darkly comic and utterly compelling." Waterstones summer 2017
recommendations
"This is masterful s**t, wiry and high-wire, this is serious
serious play." The Wily Filipino
"It is clear and precise and, in being so, illustrates the
limitations and frustrations of communication between people."
Autonomous Thought
"This is an original and trolmydames read which adds to some
equally amazing recent short story collections in English, mostly
being published by small presses. If Joanna Walsh, Claire-Louise
Bennett, Camila Grudova, Angela Readman are for you, then this
will be too." --Library Thing
About the Author
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Eley Williams lives and work in Ealing. She is co-editor of
fiction at 3:AM magazine and assists the independent publishers
Copy Press. Her prose has appeared in the journals Ambit, Night &
Day, The Dial and Structo; in 2005, she was awarded the
Christopher Tower Poetry Prize and her work has been shortlisted
twice in The White Review's Short Story Prize. She teaches both
creative writing and children's literature at Royal Holloway,
University of London, where she was recently awarded her
doctorate.