Jon McGregor published his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, in 2002, at the age of 26. This novel, like the following, is poetic, elaborately structured, and experimental, making subtle use of the now familiar postmodernist strategies of fragmentation, counterpoint, absence of linearity, and self-reflexivity.
Place and time
The main action takes place in an unnamed industrial city in the north of England, on a street where the 19th century houses used to be elegant and opulent, but are now shabby, run down, divided into flats and bedsits, and populated by immigrants, students, and elderly, lower-class people. Half the novel focuses on a single day, August 31…
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Citation: Pesso-Miquel, Catherine. "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 July 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35681, accessed 25 November 2024.]
