Helen Simpson

Motherhood

Vintage Minis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Selected from Helen Simpson's short story collections, this title deals with motherhood.

Produktdetails

• Vintage Minis
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 245193, 732002
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 108mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 83g
• ISBN-13: 9781784872731
• ISBN-10: 1784872733
• Artikelnr.: 47663425

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

Helen Simpson is a writer with such a gift for sweet tenderness that one could almost overlook the glittering sharpness of the insights... Not many writers manage to be as funny as Helen Simpson without sacrificing the honesty that her writing unmistakably has Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday