A. L. Kennedy: We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time, Kartoniert / Broschiert
We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 04/2021
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529111446
- Item number:
- 10299606
- Volume:
- 278 Pages
- Weight:
- 200 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 1.4.2021
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
'Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading' Sunday Times
Humour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they navigate changing circumstances, accumulating losses, moments of comprehension and tenderness. Here is the woman, hoping for a quiet day at the zoo, who finally snaps at a white man's racist tirade and vents years of fury; the micro-celebrity who practises lines for a chat show on which he'll never appear; and the woman who walks out of her honeymoon suite at midnight, perhaps for good. Unsparing in her close examination of human relationships, A. L. Kennedy proves once again why she is regarded as one of our great storytellers.
'Kennedy dissects the small intimacies of inner thoughts... Her prose is typically direct, her sentences clear-cut and yet capable of great tenderness' Observer
'An author with a proven ability to see - truly see - and whose prose can fire like gunshots across the page' New Statesman
Biography
A. L. (Alison Louise) Kennedy, am 22. Oktober 1965 im schottischen Dundee geboren, gehört seit ihrer ersten Aufnahme in die legendäre Granta-Anthologie Best of Young British Writers (1993) zu den meistbeachteten Autorinnen Großbritanniens und gewann zahlreiche Preise. A. L. Kennedy wurde u.a. mit dem Somerset Maugham Award ausgezeichnet. Die Autorin, Dramatikerin und Filmemacherin lebt in Glasgow und meldet sich mit Beiträgen im Guardian auch politisch zu Wort, u.a. als engagierte Gegnerin des Irak-Krieges. Sie erhielt 2008 den Internationale Eifel-Literatur-Preis.
