Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
16.01.2020
Verlag
Canongate BooksSeitenzahl
241 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
796 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781847677099
A "bloody, believable and intoxicating" collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of
Born Free (
The Herald, UK).
Laura Hird became one of the most exciting new voices in Scottish literature with her Whitbread Award-shortlisted debut novel,
Born Free. Known for pitch-perfect characters dealing with the despair and dysfunction of contemporary life, Hird continues to mine this trademark territory in
Hope and Other Urban Tales.
Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's slices of reality are gritty, bleak and often darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can reveal the morally obscure darkness in 'good' people, so can seemingly irredeemable characters harbor well-hidden pockets of humanity.
"Hird reminds one of an early Ian McEwan or Iain Banks, deeply unsettling, deathly comic and peculiarly tender."-
Sunday Times, UK
"Hird controls her material brilliantly. If you like your fiction with razor blades secreted in the soup, then get this, pronto."-
Scotsman, UK
Born Free (
The Herald, UK).
Laura Hird became one of the most exciting new voices in Scottish literature with her Whitbread Award-shortlisted debut novel,
Born Free. Known for pitch-perfect characters dealing with the despair and dysfunction of contemporary life, Hird continues to mine this trademark territory in
Hope and Other Urban Tales.
Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird's slices of reality are gritty, bleak and often darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can reveal the morally obscure darkness in 'good' people, so can seemingly irredeemable characters harbor well-hidden pockets of humanity.
"Hird reminds one of an early Ian McEwan or Iain Banks, deeply unsettling, deathly comic and peculiarly tender."-
Sunday Times, UK
"Hird controls her material brilliantly. If you like your fiction with razor blades secreted in the soup, then get this, pronto."-
Scotsman, UK
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