Hey Yeah Right Get A Life - Couverture souple

Simpson, Helen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099284227 ISBN 13 : 9780099284222

Editeur : Vintage, 2001

Synopsis

This collection, Helen Simpson's third and best yet, is a loosely linked set of stories about women - at work, at home and on holiday - that is poignant, perceptive, often sad and frequently funny.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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

Revue de presse :

"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)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099284227
• ISBN 13: 9780099284222
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192