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What becomes

Collection of stories that captures contemporary social and spiritual malaise.

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  • "Collection of stories that captures contemporary social and spiritual malaise."
  • "Collection of stories that captures contemporary social and spiritual malaise."@en
  • "A.L. Kennedy's remarkable new collection of stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt, and terror, but also the redemption of love - and she does so with enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and brilliantly original linguistic skill. Kennedy won the Costa Book Award for her novel "Day.""
  • "Twice selected for Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day ("Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity"'The New York Review of Books), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine's top ten books of the year'the internationally revered A. L. Kennedy returns with a story collection whose glorious wit and vitality make this a not-to-be-missed addition to the canon of one of our most formidable young writers. No one captures the spirit of our times like A. L. Kennedy, with her dark humor, poignant hopefulness, and brilliant evocation of contemporary social and spiritual malaise. In the title story, a man abandons his indifferent wife and wanders into a small-town movie theater where he finds himself just as invisible as he was at home. In the masterfully comic "Saturday Teatime," a woman trying to relax in a flotation tank is hijacked by memories of her past. In "Whole Family with Young Children Devastated," a woman, inadvertently drawn into a stranger's marital dysfunction, meditates on the failings of modern life as seen through late-night television and early-morning walks. Powerful and funny, intimate and profound, the stories in What Becomes are further proof that Kennedy is one of the most dazzling and inventive writers of her generation. From the Hardcover edition."@en
  • "A collection of stories written with dark humor, poignant hopefulness, and brilliant evocation of contemporary social and spiritual malaise."@en
  • "A collection of 12 stories from an author selected twice as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists."
  • "A.L. Kennedy's remarkable new collection of stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt, and terror, but also the redemption of love, and she does so with enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and the brilliantly original linguistic skill that distinguishes her as one of the world's finest writers. Always attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility. Each story is a dramatization of the instant in a life that exposes it all; love."@en

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  • "Bestseller 2009 (Englisch)"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Short Stories"@en
  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"

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  • "What becomes"
  • "What becomes : stories"
  • "What becomes stories"
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  • "What Becomes"
  • "Was wird Erzählungen"
  • "Was wird : Erzählungen"

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