Tuesday Nights and Wednesday Mornings

Plucked from the rainy streets of Manchester, award-winning author Gwendoline Riley's novella and stories explore the diminishing prospects of true love, the daunting face of God, and the aftereffects of too much time at the bar with a devotion she likens to "lying on a rest room floor saying the Jesus prayer." In the titular novella, the centerpiece of the collection, we meet Esther, an emotionally capricious twenty-something, part-time struggling writer, and skeptical romantic. Esther loses herself on the streets of Manchester, her adopted home, and explores it with ritual fervor. Although her best friend Donna provides a steady source of emotional succor, Esther adopts a loner's guise in the face of a broken home and a series of less-than-storybook romances. However, when a young American musician enters her life she comes face-to-face with the intimacy she so desperately seeks. Riley has created a cast of characters that embody both an enigmatic reticence, and a graceful emotionalism. Tuesday Nights and Wednesday Mornings confirms Riley as one of the most talented new voices in fiction today.

ISBN 0786713267   Pages 224 ISBN13 9780786713264 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc   Weight (grammes) 299 Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc   Published in New York Format Paperback   Height (mm) 210 Publication date 21 Apr 2004   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress PR6118.I43   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 823.92   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

		Sick notes		1
		La la land		167
		Sad love		179
		Children		183
		One more cup of coffee		187
		Perpetual piccadilly		191
		My new friend		195
		Self-containment		197
		September		199
		Narcissism		205
		War story		213
		Au Pont Du Font		221
		I thought about you		227

"Riley's obvious talent for characterization...makes her [a writer] to watch in the future."

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