Lolito
- 1 Aug 2013
- 9781782111580
- £14.99
- 288 pp
- 129×198mm
- 1 Aug 2013
- 9781782111597
- £8.79
- 288 pp
In a few words
Age is just a number…
In a few words
Age is just a number…
My God, Brooks is a frightening young talent. In Lolito, he creates a multi-coloured, grubby little world that I'd really hate to read about if I was a parent. Magnetising, funny and disturbing, his prose is infectious and highly addictive. I loved it
Tim Key
Lolito is the funniest, most horrible book I've read in years. I was blown away
Nick Cave
Praise for Grow Up:
'Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter
Noel Fielding
Sickeningly good. So confident, so stylish. An unacceptably witty and original debut
Tim Key
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A JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 WINNER
She’s online.
‘I booked a hotel,’ I say. ‘Near Marble Arch.’
‘That sounds great, hon. I can’t wait to see you.’
‘Yeah. Me too.’
‘I’m vaguely nervous.’
‘Don’t be.’
Do be. I’m a child.
Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.
When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . ?
Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story.
More about
the book
A JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 WINNER
She’s online.
‘I booked a hotel,’ I say. ‘Near Marble Arch.’
‘That sounds great, hon. I can’t wait to see you.’
‘Yeah. Me too.’
‘I’m vaguely nervous.’
‘Don’t be.’
Do be. I’m a child.
Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.
When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . ?
Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story.
I love Ben Brooks. And Lolito is really something else. A twisted age-gap love story that is deadpan and grubby and strangely poetic and funny and wrong and also very right. It is like how The Graduate would have ended up if Dustin Hoffman had watched a lot of Loose Women and drank Strongbow and spent too much time on the internet
Matt Haig
Grow Up is absolutely knockout - Brooks has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top class
Richard Milward
Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter
Noel Fielding
The most convincing portrayal of the adolescent mind since Vernon God Little
Ewan Morrison
Praise for Grow Up:
The most convincing portrayal of the adolescent mind since Vernon God Little
Ewan Morrison
Grow Up is absolutely knockout - Brooks has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top class
Richard Milward Author Of Apples
This is a totally convincing portrait of being a wayward teenager now, that only a teenager could have written
Ben Brooks
View profileBen Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is also the author of five other books Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, and Upward Coast & Sadie. Brooks’ work has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology. Lolito was a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize–winner in 2014.
Ben Brooks
View profileBen Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is also the author of five other books Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, and Upward Coast & Sadie. Brooks’ work has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology. Lolito was a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize–winner in 2014.
