Daphne - Brossura

'Boast's real forte is the evocation of emotion... Daphne is sleek and artful, it is also quite touching' -- Literary Review

'This engaging debut set in San Francisco is a modern retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth... it makes us coolly contemplate how and why we feel' -- Guardian

'Thought-provoking... Written in a modishly clipped style that captures Daphne's repression, Boast memorably tests how far people will go to seal themselves off from physical and emotional pain' --Sunday Times

'Boast's novel is wry and witty, tender and weird... [It] expands beyond easy romance into a political exploration of the necessity of empathy, and the toll empathy can take. Daphne is at once a fable and a beautifully engaged reflection on love. It is strange and heart-warming in equal measure' -- Irish Times

'Set in the era of Occupy Wall Street, in San Francisco where rich techies coexist with the homeless and addicted, Daphne is a clever consideration of the place of feeling in both public and private life' --Financial Times

Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His short story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. He is the author of Epilogue, a memoir (2014). His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices and the New York Times, among other publications. He has been a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the UK.