Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't (eBook)

Josie Long (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
138 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83885-610-6 (ISBN)

Infos

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZEFrom a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tries to influence his son's best friend. A cul-de-sac WhatsApp group discusses eggs at length. A heavily pregnant woman finds a way to time travel and a girl discovers joy on a stolen bicycle . . . Each tale paints a life in miniature and offers an escape chute from the mayhem of modern life.

Autor

Josie Long is a writer and a stand-up comedian. She won the Best Newcomer award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been nominated three times for Best Show. She was born in Kent in 1982 and studied English at Oxford University. She currently lives in Glasgow. josielong.com | @josielong

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2023
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: A Brief History of Time • An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth • andrea wulf • Anxiety • Being Mortal • Biology • Brian Cox • Broken Homes • cheating • climate change • Daniel Kahneman • Depression • do no harm • dysfunctional families • Einstein • Family • frazzled • Friendship • Funny • Gazzaniga • Healing • Health • human being • Incognito • lockdown • Malcolm Gladwell • Mental Health • Mental Illness • Modern Britain • Motherhood • Neuroscience • Oliver Sachs • Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole • reasons to stay alive • relationships • sapiens • Schizophrenia • Science • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics • The Idiot Brain • The mind • The Organised Mind • Thinking, Fast and Slow • uplifting • upward spiral • When Breath Becomes Air • When the Sun Bursts • Working-class
• ISBN-10: 1-83885-610-2 / 1838856102
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83885-610-6 / 9781838856106