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Clever Girl is an indelible story of one woman's life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain's leading literary lights--Tessa Hadley--the author of the New York Times Notable Books Married Love and The London Train.
Like Alice Munro and Colm Toibin, Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives--an ability to transform the mundane into the sublime that elevates domestic fiction to literary art.
Written with the celebrated precision, intensity, and complexity that have marked her previous works, Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an English woman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley's moving novel follows Stella from the shallows of childhood, growing up with a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s, into the murky waters of middle age.
Clever Girl is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama--violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances. Yet it is Hadley's observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another, that dazzles.
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"With "Clever Girl", Tessa Hadley examines the blunt force of young adulthood. She deftly portrays this short stretch of time in which we make many of the most important decisions of our lives, all while driving under the influence of ignorance and inchoate sexuality."--Carol Anshaw, author of "Carry the One"
"Irresistibly charming."--"Vogue"
"A rich, absorbing novel."--"Vanity Fair"
"Hadley's prose is delightful to read."--"Harvard Crimson
"A rich, absorbing novel."--Anne Landsman, "Vanity Fair"
"Told in a series of perfectly observed moments, "Clever Girl" is not about what you want your life to be, but what you do with what life hands you....An elegant, accomplished novel."--Lauren Bufferd, "BookPage
"Hadley's prose is delightful to read."--Adela Kim, "Harvard Crimson
"Subtle....A story that doesn't overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn't ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power....Stella may not stand out, but Tessa Hadley certainly does."--Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review
"Irresistibly charming."--Vogue
"Hadley's prose is both precise and imaginative....Her genteel style belies the many pointed insights she has to offer about female ambition and desire."--John Williams, New York Times
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"Irresistibly charming."--"Vogue"
"A rich, absorbing novel."--"Vanity Fair"
"Hadley's prose is delightful to read."--"Harvard Crimson
"A rich, absorbing novel."--Anne Landsman, "Vanity Fair"
"Told in a series of perfectly observed moments, "Clever Girl" is not about what you want your life to be, but what you do with what life hands you....An elegant, accomplished novel."--Lauren Bufferd, "BookPage
"Hadley's prose is delightful to read."--Adela Kim, "Harvard Crimson
"Subtle....A story that doesn't overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn't ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power....Stella may not stand out, but Tessa Hadley certainly does."--Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review
"Irresistibly charming."--Vogue
"Hadley's prose is both precise and imaginative....Her genteel style belies the many pointed insights she has to offer about female ambition and desire."--John Williams, New York Times
From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley’s 5th novel now re-jacketed for a whole new audience
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- PublisherWindsor
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 147135475X
- ISBN 13 9781471354755
- BindingHardcover
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