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Author:
Anne Enright
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099520993
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EAN: 9780099520993
Published: 5 Mar 2009
First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking Pictures'.
In Yesterday's Weather, Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright's characters are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out. A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by an swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. This collection includes some of Enright's best loved stories as well as her latest works. These are sharp, vivid tales of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.
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Enright deals beautifully with the modern world ... blood, guts, and heart-stopping beauty
- Independent
At the top of her form, she is remarkable
- The Times
Shockingly beautiful and painfully funny
- Observer
The quality of the writing should help to explain Enright's having won the 2007 Man Booker Prize ... single lines and paragraphs are so well crafted, with such salty, pleasantly brutal sensibility, that these stories function like beguiling advertisements for Enright's novels. After sampling Taking Pictures, those who, like me, have not yet read The Gathering will likely move her Man Booker winner nearer to the top of the pile beside the bed
- Daily Telegraph
She's a sphinx, an alchemist, a literary witch who sticks a spell on you. Angela Carter and Ali Smith can do this too.... buy it, read it, it isn't realism, it's music
- Scotsman
Every one of these stories takes you to a place you might rather not be in, but which you are drawn in to explore, allured by their dark brilliance
- Guardian
Enright writes beautifully about the distance of desire
- Financial Times
Dazzling ...These narrative snapshots are skilfully framed and in-focus, the language forthright and fresh
- Time Out
This short story collection gives those new to her oeuvre a chance to delve into gems from her past...precociously vibrant
- Financial Times
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published one previous collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and four novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? - shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore Award, The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch and The Gathering. A story in this collection, 'Honey', won the Davy Byrne's Irish Writing Award.
