Sunstroke and Other Stories: Truly absorbing... More please' Sunday Express - Softcover
Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 160 in Publisher: Vintage Books USA Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women between parents of children between friends. A son confesses by to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend ; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman. a guest at his parents' holiday home. who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. A daughter remembers running away from home with her mother; two sisters from a family of nine vow together to grow up free from dreary women's problems. Hidden away inside the present. the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated w...
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"Few writers give me such consistent pleasure" (Zadie Smith)
"She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today" (Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie)
"Truly absorbing... a masterful yet understated read... More please" (Sunday Express)
"Brilliant... Hadley's style is as discreet as good tailoring" (Independent)
"The stories sparkle...Hadley is fascinating for the way she admits a fantasy or a missed chance can be more significant than the actual events that shape a life" (Metro)
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"She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today" (Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie)
"Truly absorbing... a masterful yet understated read... More please" (Sunday Express)
"Brilliant... Hadley's style is as discreet as good tailoring" (Independent)
"The stories sparkle...Hadley is fascinating for the way she admits a fantasy or a missed chance can be more significant than the actual events that shape a life" (Metro)
After just two novels, Accidents in the Home and Everything Will Be All Right, Tessa Hadley has established herself as one of the most perceptive and entertaining writers in Britain, ‘a rare and startling gem’ whose writing is ‘fantastically subtle, absorbing and insightful’ (Guardian). Sunstroke is her first collection of stories.
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- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0099499258
- ISBN 13 9780099499251
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