Anne Enright

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The Portable Virgin

Beschreibung

Discover Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories. 'Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original' Angela Carter The characters in Anne Enright's fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society.

Autor

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Her most recent novel, The Wren, The Wren, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction, and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 809534
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 129mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 144g
• ISBN-13: 9780099437390
• ISBN-10: 0099437392
• Artikelnr.: 23164557

Rezensionen

Witty and acerbic...unusual and elegant. She is a writer to watch Today