A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life

Robert McGill, Robert McGill

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Coach House Books
20 September 2022

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

2022 QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 30TH ANNUAL HAMILTON LITERARY FICTION AWARD

A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furniture

Distraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And she'll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter lle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan's wish come true.

But lle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have brought her to this new country and to Regan's house. Meanwhile, Regan might be changing her mind, and she finds herself more and more concerned about keeping both lle and herself alive. But the shadowy organization that brought them together wants to keep them both quiet

permanently.

A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly comic dystopian tale that probes our anxieties around boundaries, whether territorial or bodily, and our fraught desire not to die alone.

""Gripping from the first page, Robert McGill's A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a dark, speculative novel with echoes of The Handmaid's TaleReproduction

""Terrifying and tender, A Suitable CompanionBellevue Square

""The guy knows what he's doing, from missing children to silk parachutes, you are never lost and he will catch you.""

Zadie Smith, author of Swing Time

""A storyteller who refuses to keep things straight, and for this produces freshly captivating effects.""

Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist

""A writer of striking talent and originality.""

Daily Mail on The Mysteries

""McGill is a talented writer, adept at expressing the nuanced, unspoken truths that beg the lies by which we live.""

Observer on The Mysteries

By: Robert McGill, Robert McGill
Imprint: Coach House Books
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9781552454442
ISBN 10: 1552454444
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 20 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert McGill's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines includingThe Atlantic,The Dublin Review,Hazlitt, andThe Walrus. He teaches at the University of Toronto. His previous books include two novels,The MysteriesandOnce We Had a Country, and two nonfiction books,The Treacherous ImaginationandWar Is Here. Visit him at robert-mcgill.com.

Reviews for A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life

With his elegant prose, Robert McGill forces us to question what we believe in, what we love, and just how much we're willing to sacrifice. - Tanis Rideout, author of Above All Things A maelstrom of vice, conflict and intrigue ... sculpted with a sensitive precision. - Independent on The Mysteries Tense, original and observant. - Guardian on The Mysteries Consummately well written. - Times on The Mysteries

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A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life

Robert McGill, Robert McGill

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