The Beautiful Indifference: Stories - Brossura

Hall, Sarah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0062208454 ISBN 13: 9780062208453

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2013

Riassunto

This unique and disturbing collection includes stories in which the serenity of a Finnish lake turns sinister when a woman's lover does not come back from his swim, a bored London housewife discovers a secret erotic club, and a shy, bookish girl develops an unlikely friendship with the schoolyard bully. Original. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Well worth the wait . . . These sensuous and hair-raising stories . . . bristle with pure caprice and sheer havoc. (Elle)

“Incredible.” (Daily Beast)

“Hall weaves together elements of gothic horror, futuristic sf, and the British tradition of murder ballads to create a strikingly original voice full of lyric intensity.” (Library Journal)

“Reaches a standard that makes award juries sit up and take note.” (Lionel Shriver, Financial Times)

“Visual and vibrant. Literary and lyrical.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Shows her characteristic ability to cause disquiet ... Hall’s sharply perceptive observations strike like slaps ... These are stimulating, unsettling stories.” (The Independent on Sunday)

“These stories constantly thwart one’s dramatic expectations -- and are all the more dramatic for it ... This prose, particularly when used to convey the bleakness of the Cumbrian landscape, is wonderful ... She does darkness so very well.” (The Times (London))

“Balancing muscularity with achingly beautiful prose, these stories are dark, raw and heartbreaking. An immensely satisfying and haunting collection.” (Clare Wigfall)

“Individually stunning, together these stories comprise a tour-de-force collection that has reignited my love of the form.” (S.J. Watson)

“Luscious short stories from uber-talented Cumbrian writer Sarah Hall, all told in ravishing prose.” (Metro)

L'autore:

Sarah Hall was born in 1974 in Cumbria, England. She received a master of letters in creative writing from Scotland's St. Andrews University and has published four novels. Haweswater won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (overall winner, Best First Novel) and a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award. The Electric Michelangelo was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Eurasia Region), and the Prix Femina Étranger, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Daughters of the North won the 2006/07 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction. How to Paint a Dead Man was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Portico Prize for Fiction. In 2013 Hall was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a prize awarded every ten years, and she won the BBC National Short Story Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062208454
• ISBN 13: 9780062208453
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 187