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So happy to announce the reissue on July 16 of The Only Ones
in Two Dollar Radio's New Classics series.
Some more reviews:
“Dibbell's major accomplishment (besides publishing her first novel
just shy of 70) is her narrator, Inez, blessed and cursed with
immunity in a society ravaged by plagues. Inez's voice—a fragmented
vernacular that is wise, tough and humane—elevates this dystopian
novel . . .
” —O, The Oprah magazine, "favorite books of the year"
“Dibbell may have created the most important post-apocalyptic novel
since McCarthy's The Road—and one equally as harrowing,
too.
” —Jay Slayton-Joslin, Cultured Vultures
“The book illuminates present-day paranoias, but it is further elevated
by Dibbell's trenchant attention to the corrosive nature of social and
economic inequality.
” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A punk-rock take on Sci-Fi.
” —National Post, "best books of the year"
“What an incredible book [The Only Ones] is. The bizarre
reproductive dystopia of The Only Ones is searing. Through
the environment of her terrifying near-future and narrator Inez's
unmistakable voice, Dibbell probes society with rare insight and
maturity that's, simply, important.
” —Meredith Turits, Bustle: "2015's best debut books"
“One of the most original mother-daughter stories of recent memory.
” —Barnes & Noble Review
“The Only Ones is at least in part the story of a woman declining
to accept the role she's been handed—declining to be silenced,
suppressed, used up and cast aside. It's the story of a woman determined
to live as well as she can in the broken world she has, for her own sake
as well as for her daughter's.
” —Karen Munro, Strange Horizons
Very pleased to announce the publication of The Only Ones,
Editions Le Nouvel Attila September 7 2017.
traduit de l'americain par Theophile Sersiron.
Carola Dibbell's novel, The Only
Ones, was selected by:
“A debut novel on par with some of the
best speculative fiction of the past 30 years, The Only Ones
deserves to be shelved alongside Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's
Tale, Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring, and P. D. James'
The Children of Men. It's that good, and that important, and that
heartbreakingly
beautiful.”
--Jason Heller, NPR Books
“A thrilling look at motherhood, class
and gender, and what it means to be human.”
--Isaac Fitzgerald, Buzzfeed, #6SecondBookReview
“Her name is Inez, but the story opens with
her telling us her sobriquet, I. "That's what they call me. I'm lucky they
call me anything." She might as well be saying, Call me
Ishmael.”
--Jenna Leigh Evans, Electric Literature
“A bracing, tough minded, farsighted novel
about bravery and endurance, motherhood and the way life goes on even
after the world ends. Every sentence
pierces.”
--Kelly Link, author, Magic for Beginners
“On the other side of Aldous Huxley's
brave new world is Carola Dibbell's braver one, all the more
unsettling (and maybe even more profound) for being not five hundred
years from now but five minutes, in a time at once beyond our control
and too immediate to escape. Brilliantly conceived, passionately
defiant, deeply felt, The Only Ones introduces--in the
form of central character Inez Fardo--one of the most memorable and
compelling first-person voices in recent American
fiction.”
--Steve Erickson, author, These Dreams of You
“At times, The Only
Ones feels large, small, sweeping and intimate, scary and full
of hope. Dense and vivid, smart and
thought-provoking.”
--Charles Yu, author, How to Live Safely in a
Science Fictional Universe
“How can a writer this good have
waited so long for her due? . . . Carola Dibbell's
marvellous narrative has pace, emotional range, plenty of humour--some
bitter, some sweet--and one of the most harshly enthralling narrators
in fiction since Huckleberry
Finn.”
--Adam Mars-Jones, author, Cedilla
“This is an enthralling journey
through a near future, plague filled landscape, presented with such
gritty clarity and such a darkly humorous eye for detail that it feels
completely real. Inez' deadpan account of her heroic struggle to keep
her daughter alive in the ruins of Brooklyn and Queens--a devastated
but curiously familiar world, filled with maddening school
bureaucracies and public transport that never comes becomes a
fantastic portrait of what it is to raise a child.”
--Mary Harron, director, I Shot Andy Warhol,
The Notorious Bettie Page
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