Jackdaw (novel): Difference between revisions

Themes of the book include: the passion needed to create art, and the "blurred lines between creativity and madness.,"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jackdaw by Tade Thompson |url=https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/11feabed-f685-439b-b531-74ad231e8b3f |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=app.thestorygraph.com}}</ref> as well as "the thinness of the boundary between art and artist, subject and object."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jackdaw by Tade Thompson from @CHEERIOPublish – The British Fantasy Society |url=https://britishfantasysociety.org/jackdaw-by-tade-thompson-from-cheeriopublish/ |access-date=2024-09-23 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Thompson explains in interview that the protagonist of ''Jackdaw'' is not himself, although they share the same name, profession and family situation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022-11-03 |title=Interviewing Tade Thompson — Runalong The Shelves |url=https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2022/11/3/interviewing-tade-thompson |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=Runalong The Shelves |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Lisa Tuttle]], writing for ''[[The Guardian|The Guardian,]]'' described ''Jackdaw'' as: "A wild, darkly comic nightmare set on the borderlines of creativity, imagination and madness."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tuttle |first=Lisa |date=2022-10-07 |title=The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/07/the-best-recent-science-fiction-and-fantasy-reviews-roundup |access-date=2024-09-22 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> ''[[Daily Mail|The Daily Mail]]'' said: "The sheer unpredictability of the narrative is sustained by the easy-reading clarity of Thompson’s voice, wholly disarming as it toys gleefully with the book’s autobiographical overlap."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cummins |first=Anthony |date=2022-10-13 |title=LITERARY FICTION |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-11313069/LITERARY-FICTION.html |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=Mail Online}}</ref> The ''[[Financial Times]]'' says: "''Jackdaw'' is an original and compelling account of a writer so desperate not to short-change his subject that he descends into a cycle of degradation and madness."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/942b6873-278b-4006-8818-40bda8dc51fe |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=www.ft.com}}</ref>