Yesterday's Weather

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.

ISBN 0099520990   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780099520993 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 224 Publisher Vintage   Published in London Imprint Vintage   Height (mm) 196 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 130 Publication date 05 Mar 2009   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

Acclaim for the internationally bestselling The Gathering: "Such incredible sentences . . . it's unlikely you'll find a more precisely rendered depiction of the hypocrisy, minor hysterics, and comforting ritual of an Irish wake."-- "Globe and Mail" "Enright is a daring writer -- witty, original and inventive. . . . Utterly compelling." -- "Daily Mail" "Reckless intelligence, savage humor, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright's fiction is jet dark -- but how it glitters." -- "New York Times Book Review" "A lyrical meditation on memory and connectedness . . . dreamy . . . wise. . . . Like Ali Smith, Enright is an original." -- "Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)

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