Hey Yeah Right Get A Life - Brossura

Simpson, Helen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099284227 ISBN 13: 9780099284222

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2001

Riassunto

Helen Simpson's third collection is a bold, honest exploration of the trials and the rewards of motherhood.

‘Her stories are - for those who, like me, recognise the truth in every word - like a reprieve... Sharp, poetic and marvellously witty’ Kate Kellaway, Observer

Here are tales of a highflyer stuck at an interminable Burns Night celebration, increasingly aware of the babysitter waiting for her at home; an exhausted mother longing for adult conversation but whose son unwittingly precludes it; and a teenage girl whose fraught encounter with a harried mum of one brings newfound appreciation for her own capable mother of four. Most strikingly of all we meet Dorrie, whose efforts to calm her tinderbox of a family leave her struggling to contain her own emotions.

Hey Yeah Right Get a Life is a singular achievement: relatable, perceptive and utterly poignant.

‘It's a brilliant, painful, funny and courageous book’ Esther Freud, Guardian

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Recensione:

"It's a brilliant, painful, funny and courageous book" (Esther Freud Guardian)

"Simply tremendous... She is a witch, with the surest hand in contemporary fiction" (Philip Hensher Spectator)

"Her limpid, chaste, luscious fiction describes real lives" (John Lancaster Daily Telegraph)

"Her stories are - for those who, like me, recognise the truth in every word - like a reprieve... Sharp, poetic and marvellously witty" (Kate Kellaway Observer)

"Motherhood has long been a subscription-only sort of subject. Helen Simpson has found a way to tell it, and I hope that people beyond the constituency margins are listening" (Rachel Cusk Evening Standard)

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'Some of the most sensitive, insightful and finely crafted stories I have ever read.' Ruth Rendell, Mail on Sunday

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099284227
• ISBN 13: 9780099284222
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192