A L Kennedy

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All the Rage: StoriesCompact Disc, 29 April 2014

All the Rage: Stories
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Language
English
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Date Published
29 Apr 2014
ISBN-10
1480584339
ISBN-13
9781480584334

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All the Rage was named to the shortlist of Best Short Story Collection by The Frank O'Connor Prize

A.L. Kennedy, the author of The Blue Book and Day, writes like a force of nature. Claire Messud says she's "one of Britain's most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents." Richard Ford calls her "a profound writer," and Ali Smith dubbed her "the laureate of good hurt."

All the Rage is Kennedy's riveting new collection, a luscious feast of language that encompasses real estate and forlorn pets, adolescents and sixtysomethings, weekly liaisons and obsessive affairs, "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things." The women and men in these dozen stories search for love, solace, and a clear glimpse of what their lives have become. Anything can set them off thinking--the sad homogeneity of hotel breakfasts, a sex shop operated under Canadian values (whatever those are), an army of joggers dressed as Santa. With her boundless empathy and gift for the perfect phrase, Kennedy makes us care about each of her characters. In "Takes You Home," a man's attempt to sell his flat becomes a journey to the interior, by turns comic and harrowing. And "Late in Life" deftly evokes an intergenerational love affair free of the usual clichés, the younger partner asking the older, "What should I wear at your funeral?"

Alive with memory, humor, and longing, All the Rage is A.L. Kennedy at her inimitable best.

Product Details

Author:
A L Kennedy
Book Format:
Compact Disc
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
29 April 2014
Dimensions:
13.72 x 16.26 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
1480584339
ISBN-13:
9781480584334
Language:
English
Weight:
136.08 gm

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