Constitutional
(Sprache: Englisch)
One woman finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged by involvement in some carpentry repair work. Another grows increasingly angry as the grim reaper scythes through her circle, with farcical and tragic results. This title offers stories of charting...
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One woman finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged by involvement in some carpentry repair work. Another grows increasingly angry as the grim reaper scythes through her circle, with farcical and tragic results. This title offers stories of charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy, war and love affairs that unroll with piercing wit and sympathy.
Autoren-Porträt von Helen Simpson
Helen Simpson is the author of Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, In-Flight Entertainment and A Bunch of Fives. In 1991 she was chosen as the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and won the Somerset Maugham Award. In 1993 she was chosen as one of Granta's twenty Best of Young British Novelists. She has also received the Hawthornden prize, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. She lives in London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Helen Simpson
- 144 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,6 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0099494183
- ISBN-13: 9780099494188
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2006
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Englisch
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"It's a safe bet that...this slim volume will be hailed as a book of the year. Helen Simpson's short stories are the real thing...one of our most talented writers has produced a collection to savour" Daily Mail "A justly acclaimed expert at the short story form, Simpson deftly weaves in humour with the miserable subjects of spiritual and physical death, to give us a rich tapestry of life's best and worst moments" Sunday Herald "A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro" -- Robert McCrum Observer "[H]er stories come laced with such wit, dark humour and an ear for dialogue that's as sharp as Alan Bennett's" Scotsman "Simpson's use of language is remarkable: she handles prose with the risky precision of a trapeze artist, swooping and tumbling through empty air, seeming certain at moments to succumb to whimsy or sentimentality but at the last moment recovering her grasp on the deftly constructed framework of her narratives. It's a virtuoso performance; its effect on the reader both consoling and exhilarating" -- Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph
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