All The Places We Lived By Richard Owain Roberts
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The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway Wildfire site_link More pretentious hipster Where s the hwyl and the grit Sorry but my idea of Wales and Welsh writing isn t rich kids bangin on about Bart Simpson and Should get off his privileged backside and try living somewhere like India where people do have real problems Paperback A smaller work than the later novel Hello Friend WMY but still has many things to say and with certain style Paperback Found this as a result of the Guardian NTB shortlisting of Hello Friend We Missed You A fascinating insight and made me reread the afore mentioned novel again.
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These moments are the strongest part There is plenty of lovely writing here Imagery is clean and precise from apples to clean counters and reception areas and glasses of various smoothies The aesthetic of the book is strong and consistent throughout There are also lots of cats This is a really good book I sometimes feel confused why short stories are so neglected by most of mainstream society When they are written as they are in books like All The Places We Lived it makes me want to take an advert out in the newspaper telling people to read them They can be so entertaining I really don t understand why we don t embrace the form This collection has so much to offer I really hope people will pick it up Paperback
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The winner of the Guardians Not The Booker Prize 2020 Hello Friend We Missed You is Richards debut novel. All The Places We Lived ebook reader The subject of the forthcoming documentary ULTRA covering the book tour for the Serbian translation of All The Places We Lived Richard lives in Cardiff Wales with his family Praise for Hello Friend We Missed You I do believe we have found a gem Sam Jordison The Guardian Brisk but surprisingly deep A witty irony rich coming of age story Kirkus Reviews Above all it succeeds because of Roberts s gift for comic timing and dialogue that rings true Anthony Cummins Literary Review This is so so good You will no doubt read this book as I did wit The winner of the Guardian s Not The Booker Prize 2020 Hello Friend We Missed You is Richard s debut novel. All The Places We Lived contemporary lyrics The subject of the forthcoming documentary ULTRA covering the book tour for the Serbian translation of All The Places We Lived Richard lives in Cardiff Wales with his family Praise for Hello Friend We Missed You I do believe we have found a gem Sam Jordison The Guardian Brisk but surprisingly deep A witty irony rich coming of age story Kirkus Reviews Above all it succeeds because of Roberts s gift for comic timing and dialogue that rings true Anthony Cummins Literary Review This is so so good You will no doubt read this book as I did with an ever growing sense of appreciation and admiration for its wit warmth rhythm poetry and virtuoso display of a writer in complete and audacious command of his material What is at root a simple boy meets girl story is transmuted into something uniquely astonishing through a wild and intrepid imagination To repeat this novel is so soooo good Niall Griffiths It s Roberts writing that really makes the story something special a steady pulse of short sections and tightly wrought sentences which develop a rhythm that ripples forward in a wake of momentum carrying the story forward with a delightful quickness I ve become a fan of Welsh writing and Parthian is doing a fine job of bringing books like this into the world I m glad this book came my way Duncan B Barlow Vol1 Brooklyn As fiendish as it is funny Never fails to conjure deep revealing vignettes about the complexities of grief and what it means to be alive in a world of such unrelenting cosmic injustice Gemma Pearson Wales Arts Review A poignant and emotive reflection on loneliness guilt and personal trauma New Welsh Review Richard Owain Roberts is a writer of exceptional stylistic talent but one who manages to bring characters and places into vibrant life This is an undeniably cool book but it also has a great deal of soul He could be the voice of our generation I hope people are reading Amy Lloyd One More Lie Penguin Roberts writing is evocative and beautiful varied and expansive detailed and vague Place and personhood are both captured wisely and humanely and honestly it was a joy to read Scott Manley Hadley Triumph Of The Now If one of the functions of the novel is to reflect the world around us then HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is as close as you can get to a perfect piece of art Rhys Thomas for what is now a third reading Paperback 
The three star rating is to insist that I enjoyed the book not that there was anything lacking I can t say I loved it though because I m still struggling with modern art forms in a lot of ways poetry modern art and post modern literature is still a bit tricky for my mind. All The Places We liveds in america I found a lot of profound messages and insights into modern life in these stories but I still think there s something to be said for easily accessible narrative and this just isn t quite there for me Paperback this is my book thank you for reading it Paperback I wonder if maybe I just have no capacity to feel appropriate compassion for this sort of thing because frankly I just found this entire collection incredibly self indulgent lacking self awareness and incredibly almost forcefully obnoxious Paperback Prvo itanje bez ocene Ono to Tomas Vulf ka e o onoj sporednoj junakinji da je zaista ru na od one iste lepe ru no e mogla bih i ja sad o pro itanom Uz itanje slu ajte saundtrek iz serije Girls i ako vam se serija ne dopada verovatno ne e ni ova poluneprozirna nelagoda od knjige. All The Places We Lived fictionmanai Drugo itanje ocena 5 5 Partizanska knjiga zna poso Paperback All The Places We Lived is the debut collection of short stories from Richard Owain Roberts a new writer with an incredibly distinctive voice and a unique eye for the world The stories here are short and sweet all with warm well drawn characters from a couple trying to find their way in the world in the All The Places We Lived triptych of stories to a man trying to recover from a relationship in Barcelona to a sentient house who wants the best for its inhabitants to the minds of James Franco and Kanye West. All The Places We liveduvalstreet The stories are minimalist with a refreshing lightness to them that carries you along quickly making the reading experience a very pleasant one Which is something he has pulled off well because there are serious themes at work beneath The idea of the distancing properties of the internet recurs often we see people constantly checking iPhones and Facebooks and these characters are often set apart from the real world in the same way we set ourselves apart from the real world using the gauze of a computer screen And there is also the idea of people branding themselves online creating personas through Facebook projecting an idealised version of themselves We re all guilty of this The theme of privilege amongst the middle class is another preoccupation highlighting the problem in society of people getting into life positions they don t deserve purely because they were born well All of the above are seamlessly interwoven into the narratives There are very tender moments in the book especially between people in relationships The way they have their coded languages and in jokes gives a glimpse of the history that exists between the characters that affords the stories depth makes the reader care For me deleted tweets James Franco s mother west Wales and Barcelona Both bleak and joyously optimistic All The Places We Lived is a collection of disparate yet inextricably connected stories that are bound by the common threads that exist amongst young people in and out of love with each other and life in the twenty first century Whether keenly awaiting an imagined terror attack in a twenty third floor glass box hotel wandering Catalonian art galleries or two AM jogging on pitch black A roads solitude is never a truly concrete experience There is always someone else someone to buy a dilapidated rural house with someone to laugh with someone to get fired with someone to fight with someone to ride bikes with Richard Owain Roberts has assembled a debut collection of contemporary fiction that is minimalist confrontational delicate and relentlessly the absolute unfiltered truth All The Places We Lived was translated and published in Serbian by Partizanska Knija in 2018 All The Places We Lived.