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Beschreibung
Helen Simpson's third collection is a bold honest exploration of the trials and the rewards of motherhood.

'Her stories are - for those who like me recognise the truth in every word - like a reprieve... Sharp poetic and marvellously witty' Kate Kellaway Observer

Here are tales of a highflyer stuck at an interminable Burns Night celebration increasingly aware of the babysitter waiting for her at home; an exhausted mother longing for adult conversation but whose son unwittingly precludes it; and a teenage girl whose fraught encounter with a harried mum of one brings newfound appreciation for her own capable mother of four. Most strikingly of all we meet Dorrie whose efforts to calm her tinderbox of a family leave her struggling to contain her own emotions.

Hey Yeah Right Get a Life is a singular achievement: relatable perceptive and utterly poignant.

'It's a brilliant painful funny and courageous book' Esther Freud Guardian
Helen Simpson's third collection is a bold honest exploration of the trials and the rewards of motherhood.

'Her stories are - for those who like me recognise the truth in every word - like a reprieve... Sharp poetic and marvellously witty' Kate Kellaway Observer

Here are tales of a highflyer stuck at an interminable Burns Night celebration increasingly aware of the babysitter waiting for her at home; an exhausted mother longing for adult conversation but whose son unwittingly precludes it; and a teenage girl whose fraught encounter with a harried mum of one brings newfound appreciation for her own capable mother of four. Most strikingly of all we meet Dorrie whose efforts to calm her tinderbox of a family leave her struggling to contain her own emotions.

Hey Yeah Right Get a Life is a singular achievement: relatable perceptive and utterly poignant.

'It's a brilliant painful funny and courageous book' Esther Freud Guardian
Über den Autor
Helen Simpson's sixth short-story collection, Cockfosters, follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005) and In-Flight Entertainment (2010). A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. She lives in London.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780099284222
ISBN-10: 0099284227
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Simpson, Helen
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Helen Simpson
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.01.2019
Gewicht: 0,213 kg
Artikel-ID: 134473498

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