Exciting Times
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 US 1st edition | |
| Author | Naoise Dolan |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Set in | Hong Kong |
| Publisher | W&N (UK) HarperCollins (US) |
Publication date | 12 April 2020 (UK) 2 June 2020 (US) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom United States |
| Pages | 240 pp |
| ISBN | 9781474613446 (1st ed. hardcover) |
| OCLC | 1150786914 |
| 823.92 | |
| LC Class | PR6104.O49 E93 2020 |
| Followed by | The Happy Couple |
Exciting Times is a novel by Irish author Naoise Dolan. It was released in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and later that summer in the United States.[1] The book is Dolan's debut novel, an intimate exploration of a millennial teacher in Hong Kong who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer.
Dolan began writing Exciting Times in 2017, when she was living in Hong Kong. She completed writing the novel in five months. An early excerpt was published in The Stinging Fly. The novel received critical acclaim, and was often likened to the work of Sally Rooney, a fellow Trinity College Dublin graduate.[2][3]
Publication
Exciting Times was published in the United Kingdom by Weidenfeld & Nicolson on 12 April 2020.[4] It was released in the United States on 2 June 2020, by HarperCollins.[5]
Reception
The New York Times described it at as a novel where "jealousy and obsession, love and late capitalism, sex and the internet all come whirling together in a wry and bracing tale of class and privilege."[6] Kirkus Reviews praised it as a "refreshingly wry and insightful debut."[7] The Irish Times declared, "Exciting Times, which was acquired in a seven-way bidding war, more than lives up to the hype … It teems with insight around class, race, language and sexuality. Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers' lives."[3]
