Reality, Reality - Couverture souple

Kay, Jackie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330515721 ISBN 13 : 9780330515726

Editeur : Picador, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Jackie Kay s third collection of short stories ranks among the best of the genre.... Her writing has always been infused with warm, playful humour, and it runs through this collection... wit and vividness.' --Guardian

'By turns invigorating and witty... Kay is fast becoming the arch-chronicler of menopausal middle age, and few women of that age or beyond won t smile in recognition as she skewers the pitfalls and dissatisfactions of this most tricky and poignant of stages. Yet while Kay s default voice, in each of these first-person tales, is spirited and droll, with only one exception these stories are sad, and even tragic... The scenarios drawn in this collection are mostly the stuff of everyday domestic and emotional life, and worthy of comment only for an observer whose eye for human frailty and courage is that of a portraitist who wants to show rather than tell.' --Sunday Herald

'What s most pleasing in this story collection by one of Scotland s most celebrated writers is the quality of exuberance. There are stories here that focus upon and articulate sheer joy, without souring or undercutting it an undertaking that feels bold and uplifting in the context of a medium that tends to be dogged by maudlin introspection. Kay writes lovingly, warmly, inclusively; ever in her sadder tales, her protagonists are sustained by their bolshy wit and their openness to the ludicrousness of things... The pleasure that Kay takes in observation, in dipping her imagination into the secrets of the secretive and the songs of the unsung, is infectious... Her work is always borne along by a current of sheer generous interest in and empathy for people' --Scotland on Sunday

'Brim with sadness as well as humour... This collection certainly doesn t disappoint, each story a character study of admirable immediacy and authenticity. Great stuff'. --Diva

'Existential questions of contemporary life are at the heart of this hilarious, heartbreaking collection that skillfully slots large ideas into small spaces...The poignant, poetic stories are filled with people who have lost something: keys, clothes, competitions, weight, money, memories, marbles, sanity or love... Each to be savoured, these taut tales hauntingly depict the psychological realities of loss and loneliness' --The Observer

'One of Scotland s most celebrated living writers... Reality, Reality s most successful tales glow with a quiet radiance, touched as they are by the warmth of their creator s heart...... there are gems of genuine pathos awaiting discovery' --The Spectator

'[An] exceptional collection' --Intelligent Life (from The Economist)

'Heartbreaking, often funny and minutely observed'
--Irish Times

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. She is a poet, novelist and writer of short stories. Her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and she has published two previous collections of stories with Picador, Why Don’t You Stop Talking and Wish I Was Here. Her most recent books are Fiere and her memoir, Red Dust Road, which won the 2011 Scottish Book Award.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0330515721
• ISBN 13: 9780330515726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256