DBC Pierre was born in Australia, grew up in Mexico, has lived in Ireland and now calls Cambridgeshire home. His fifth novel, Meanwhile in Dopamine City, which has been shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize, is set in a very near future in which Lonnie Cush, a single father of two, struggles to protect his kids from the threats of city life. Chief among these to Lonnie’s mind is the grid, which is like our internet, only worse. Or perhaps our internet perceived more clearly.
The Goldsmiths Prize was set up to reward fiction that “breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form”. What can an “innovative” approach offer the reader (and writer) that a more conventional novel might not?
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