First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking Pictures'. In Yesterday's Weather, Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright's characters are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out. A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by an swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. This collection includes some of Enright's best loved stories as well as her latest works. These are sharp, vivid tales of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.
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Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, and the Washington Post Book World
“Anne Enright’s style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion’s; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro’s.”
— Colm Tóibín
“A dazzling collection… a sharp, quenching portrait of contemporary life….”
— Time Out
“Observant, funny…. Enright is remarkable.”
— The Times
“A pleasure to read.”
— Globe and Mail
From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
“Anne Enright’s style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion’s; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro’s.”
— Colm Tóibín
“A dazzling collection… a sharp, quenching portrait of contemporary life….”
— Time Out
“Observant, funny…. Enright is remarkable.”
— The Times
“A pleasure to read.”
— Globe and Mail
From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published one previous collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and four novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? - shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore Award, The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch and The Gathering. A story in this collection, 'Honey', won the Davy Byrne's Irish Writing Award.
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