Goodnight, Beautiful Women: a powerful collection of short stories about the women of a small town in Maine - Softcover

Noyes, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786490412 ISBN 13: 9781786490414

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2017

Synopsis

Anna Noyes has produced a powerful, mesmerizing debut collection of loosely interconnected short stories. Assured and atmospheric and imbued with the luminous beauty of the Maine coastline, these stories are bold, unflinching and utterly compelling. Ordinary lives are held under the microscope, making them vivid, extraordinary - steeped with promise yet mired by threat, driven mad with longing, muted by heartache and loss, trapped in the evanescence of memory. With breathtaking control and a rhythmic, lucid prose that is distinctly her own, Goodnight Beautiful Women marks Anna Noyes as an exhilarating new talent.

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Review

Noyes' achievement here is nothing less than a high-wire act: precise, fearless, breathtaking. She casts an unwavering gaze on the nature of frailty and desire, offering up gem after gem in this sensuous and startling debut. Author: Téa Obreht

Seductive, smart, and erotic, Anna Noyes' stories evoke with beautiful clarity love and sexual awakening. She is a most exciting discovery. Author: Lily King

A mesmerizing collection of stories by one of America's most exciting young writers... Tender yet unsentimental, unflinchingly bold but full of beauty, Anna Noyes' debut lingers in the mind well beyond its final paragraph. A book to fall in love with.

Author: Jonathan Lee, author of ‘Joy’ and ‘Who is Mr Satoshi’

Anna Noyes has the gift... It is a joy - and the sweetest kind of heartache - to watch her making her swift way story by story to their hearts. Author: Kevin Brockmeier, author of ‘The Illumination’ and ‘The Brief History of the Dead’

This is an extraordinary book of stories... [They] are energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish the book.

Author: Charles Baxter, author of ‘The Feast of Love’

These stories shine with prismatic, perfectly rendered settings, but more brilliant still is the delicacy with which Noyes unspools the inner lives of her characters... This feels like no debut at all, but a voice fully formed.

Author: Casey Walker, author of ‘Last Days in Shanghai’

With exceptional delicacy and grace, Noyes cracks opens the most ordinary moments and offers us their painful core. Noyes's prose is precise, skillful, and full of raw emotion. It's some of the most elegant writing I've come across recently. Author: Dina Nayeri, author of ‘A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea’

Assured and atmospheric, tender and melancholy, these stories of women adrift linger in the mind like music. I love them. Author: Karen Thompson Walker

[Noyes' characters] do not shy from their imperfections as they search for those fleeting, ambiguous moments of resolution. Source: Booklist

Women combat the bleak Maine wilderness and more insidious dangers within their own homes in a debut as rich and quiet as a walk in the dark. Source: Huffington Post

From the Author

Anna Noyes is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in VICE, A Public Space, and Guernica, amongst others. She has received the Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship and the James Merrill House Fellowship. Goodnight, Beautiful Women received the 2013 Henfield Prize for Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786490412
• ISBN 13: 9781786490414
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224