The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories - Rilegato

Mackay, Shena

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ISBN 10: 0224072986 ISBN 13: 9780224072984

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape, 2008

Riassunto

Shena Mackay is one of the very best short-story writers in the world. As the Guardian said, reviewing her last collection, 'Mackay's observational precision is outstanding; she writes like an angel wielding a scalpel, dissecting her characters with sublime, sharp-edged prose... Her stories are grand entertainment.' Or the Literary Review: 'The heart lifts at the prospect of a collection of stories by Shena Mackay. You can be certain of various elements: laughter, a touch of the blade, underlying shadows, wit, sharpness of perception.'

Her new book contains not only thirteen brilliant new stories, but a selection of twenty-three more from her previous collections, making The Atmospheric Railway a delight for her existing admirers and the perfect introduction to her work for newcomers.

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Recensione:

You can count on the unexpected in mackay's shirt fiction. But if disappointment is the lot of most of these characters, so, too, are moments of intense feeling. Readers are also rewarded by the sheer aptness of mackey's description and her fierce flashes of comedy. Snatches of verse and well-observed literary foibles decorate the narratives. In her rebellion against bleak predictability of t6he short story, Mackay's technical skill is diamond hard and her wit and imagination ever fertile (Lindsey Duguid The Sunday Times, Our Choice 2010-11-15)

Shena Mackay's short stories are wryly hilarious in their anatomising of the obsessions, eccentricities and fantasies behind ordinary lives. With throwaway brilliance, she conjures up unforgettable portraits (Katie Owen The Telegraph, Seven 2010-11-22)

funny and pointedly nostalgic narratives. Read on a suburban train - a delay will give you more time to delight in her writing' (Isobel Montgomery The Saturday Guardian 2010-11-22)

L'autore:

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of four previous collections of stories - Babies in Rhinestones, Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags, The Laughing Academy and The World's Smallest Unicorn. Her novels include Dunedin, The Orchard on Fire (which was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize), The Artist's Widow and Heligoland (which was shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize). (2004-03-15)

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• Editore: Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0224072986
• ISBN 13: 9780224072984
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 432