MARRIED LOVE: And Other Stories - Brossura

Hadley, Tessa

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ISBN 10: 0062135643 ISBN 13: 9780062135643

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2012

Riassunto

This new collection of short fiction from the acclaimed novelist delves into domestic dramas, generational sagas, tragic love affairs and life-altering realizations, from an 18-year-old girl who insists on marrying her music professor to the wife of a film producer who gets the chance to lead a much different life after her husband's death. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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“Filled with exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class, conducted with symphonic intensity and complexity....[An] understatedly beautiful collection....Extraordinarily well-made.” (Stacey D'Erasmo, New York Times Book Review)

“A British writer whose work probes the dangers and joys of family life, Tessa Hadley writes like a dream, even if some of her stories can haunt you like a nightmare....Hadley’s measured, perfectly controlled prose masterfully chronicles her characters’ turmoil; these stories are gemlike and unforgettable.” (Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe)

“Hadley’s power...is best felt as she teases out the often dangerous crackles in the air and cracks in the heart. There’s a louche tautness to her prose...” (Helen Davies, Sunday Times (London))

“[Hadley’s stories] are often like movie clips of lives in transit, their small shifts of focus yielding up flashes of psychological insight. . . . Hadley excels at the domestic context, at pinpointing the particular quiddity on which an individual character turns; at marking the tiny swings of allegiance in human relationships.” (Rachel Hore, The Independent)

“One of the most interesting writer around....This collection shows a writer quietly growing in style, perception and grace. She conveys to the reader that rare ability to see completely into someone else’s head.” (Philip Womack, The Spectator)

“Only Alice Munro and Colm Tóibin, among all the working short story writer I’m aware of, are so adept at portraying whole lives in a few thousand words. With Married Love, Hadley joins their company as one of the most clear-sighted chroniclers of contemporary emotional journeys.” (Edmund Gordon, The Guardian)

“Domestic relationships are the stuff of these delightfully understated, tightly sprung stories.” (Fanny Blake, Woman and Home)

“Married Love...could more accurately be described as a concentration, not a collection, of short stories. The stories here are, in effect, a dozen novels in miniature....There is a grand sweep and an emotional charge that brings to mind DH Lawrence.” (Elena Seymenliyska, Daily Telegraph (London))

“There is not a lot of domestic bliss to be found in these finely rendered stories, but there are many small moments of everyday life made recognizable by an exceptional storyteller. Highly recommended.” (Library Journal)

“A subtly incisive vision and the ability to conjure full fictional scenarios in limited spaces characterize the new collection by a noted British writer....Shrewd, insightful, unpredictable, Hadley’s stories successfully plumb the complicated daily deeps.” (Kirkus)

L'autore:

Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Clever Girl and The Past, as well as three short-story collections, most recently Bad Dreams and Other Stories, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker; in 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. She lives in London.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062135643
• ISBN 13: 9780062135643
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240