Adam Thirlwell, the British novelist and critic, is probably tired of being described as a prodigy. Born in 1978, he is certainly outgrowing the label. But Thirlwell’s career as a writer began so early that he retains something of the magic of precocious anointment. He was named one of Granta’s best young British novelists at the age of 24, the same year his first novel, Politics, was published, and a decade later he was still young enough to make the list again. Thirlwell’s writing—he now has three novels and a book of criticism to his credit—retains an experimental relish and a capacity for disorientation that feel youthfully virtuosic.
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