Kate Tough

Kissing Lying Down

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Navigating the online and offline worlds of pairing up, this spiky collection of short stories delves deep, with dark humour, into what it takes to strap on a smile through thirty-something failure and make human connections in the modern age. Gordon knows what Gabby wants but he hates to do what he's told; Chrissy stalks the internet to find what her fiancé wouldn't give her; three friends reunite during a heatwave and their evening gets better and better, until it doesn't... While one woman wonders if passing strangers have a better sex-face than her boyfriend, another's birthday meal goes sour at the offer of no-strings dessert. In these relationship tales, many are burned by their pasts while scanning their horizons. "Outstanding. Great humour, wonderful observations and delivers a powerful kick." Helen Sedgwick "Elevates the stuff of everyday life. Tough is a unique writer." Laura Waddell "A balmy golden evening turns into something much darker ... Great details, for good and ill." Mary Paulson-Ellis

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PICÓN PRESS
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9781838421908
• ISBN-10: 1838421904
• Artikelnr.: 62346940

Autorenporträt

Kate's had stories published in The Brooklyn Review, The Texas Review and elsewhere. Her piece, 'People Made Glasgow', was selected as a Best Scottish Poem 2016 and her poetry pamphlet, 'tilt-shift' (www.tapsalteerie.com), was Runner Up in the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, 2017, and noted in the Times Literary Supplement's notable pamphlets, 2017. She gained a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and has been a children's literacy volunteer, and creative writing tutor, in many settings."Exciting new voice in Scottish literature. Keep an eye out for this one." Kevin MacNeil