Hey Yeah Right Get A Life - Couverture rigide

Simpson, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224060821 ISBN 13 : 9780224060820

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2000

Synopsis

A string of linked stories about millennial women at work, at home and on holiday. These ten stories display a multiplicity of London life glimpsed from buses, trains and the occasional taxi, with the Thames as a diamond-dusted ribbon seen from an aeroplane coming into Heathrow; also from behind buggyloads of babies, and from suburban back gardens with their barbecues and dawn revelations. There are wine-fuelled confidences between two teachers in a Polish cafe in South Kensington, waves of grief and rudeness during a performance of Orphee at Covent Garden, and a dreadful anniversary dinner for a timber merchant and his wife somewhere in south London. There is a corporate Burns Night in a Mayfair hotel where poetry and money collide catastrophically, and an enormous air disaster which starts by destroying the glasshouses at Kew and ends by obliterating the placid domestic streets for miles around. One woman passes on the secret of wurstigkeit to another in a shopping trip of unbridled sensuousness in the heart of Spitalfields. Seventeen-year-old Jade Beaumont walks towards the jewelled narrative of her future, fiercely resolved not to be like her mother Nicola, who has a succes

A propos du livre

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)

Biographie de l'auteur

Helen Simpson's sixth short-story collection, Cockfosters, follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005) and In-Flight Entertainment (2010). A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. She lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224060821
• ISBN 13: 9780224060820
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible