Multitudes (eBook)

Lucy Caldwell (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-31352-5 (ISBN)

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'Beautifully crafted, and so finely balanced that she holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters.' Eimear McBride 'A writer of rare elegance and beauty, Caldwell doesn't just get inside her characters' minds. She perches in the precarious chambers of their hearts, telling their stories truthfully and tenderly.' Independent Multitudes is the beautiful debut story collection from the acclaimed, prize-winning novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell From Belfast to London and back again the ten stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache, the tenderness and the joy, the fleeting and the formative - or 'the drunkenness of things being various'. Stories of longing and belonging, they culminate with the heart-wrenching and unforgettable title story.

Born in Belfast in 1981, Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three previous collections of short stories. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she was also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories in 2019, and has won the E. M. Forster Award, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Walter Scott Prize among others.

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'A lively, humane book, gritty but wholehearted.' Colin Barrett, Irish Times'One of the finest short-story writers at work today.' Wendy Erskine'Exhilarating.' Sunday Times'Brilliant.' Sunday Business PostFrom Belfast to London and back again, the eleven stories in Lucy Caldwell's acclaimed first collection chronicle the heartache, joy, and tenderness of growing up. With lives caught in the suspense of transition - between city and country### between the in crowd and the out; between home and escape; between love and loneliness - Multitudes culminates with the heart-wrenching and unforgettable title story, as a young woman goes through her first labour and the traumatic days that follow. Deeply affecting, intimate and yet resonant, these are stories that squeeze right into the fractures that end up shaping the course of lives.

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'A clear, calm voice in your ear.'

'Affecting and truthful ... Caldwell's poignant stories combine to describe a collection of moments that shape and define us.'

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Alice Munro • Belfast • Helen Simpson • London • Lorrie Moore • Short Stories • Van Morrison
• ISBN-10: 0-571-31352-3 / 0571313523
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-31352-5 / 9780571313525