FIELD RAMBLE

Field ramble with ben pester

Published by Granta earlier this autumn, Ben Pester’s debut novel is the story of Tom Crowley - a Willy Loman figure for our age - who is slowly and terrifyingly absorbed into the hallucinatory and labyrinthine surroundings of his work.  From the deceptive nature of Luke Bird’s day-glow cover art to the impenetrability of the novel’s work-speak The Expansion Project is deeply unnerving precisely for its recognisable qualities. The alienation, accountability and obsolesce of corporation life at the ever growing 'Capmeadow Business Park,’ a dystopic setting that absorbs memory and demands disassociation. 

‘A profoundly moving, extraordinary novel … Witty, touching, layered and entirely original’

Rose Ruane

‘A surrealist nightmare that flows with its own logic, humour, politics and plot energy’

Ross Raisin

‘This is a luminous and startling novel from a unique new voice.’

Samuel Fisher

The EXpansion project

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Music used on this episode: Norfik - Hesitant Shell

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