Hey Yeah Right Get A Life - Hardcover

Simpson, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224060821 ISBN 13: 9780224060820

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2000

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A string of linked stories about millennial women at work, at home and on holiday. These ten stories display a multiplicity of London life glimpsed from buses, trains and the occasional taxi, with the Thames as a diamond-dusted ribbon seen from an aeroplane coming into Heathrow; also from behind buggyloads of babies, and from suburban back gardens with their barbecues and dawn revelations. There are wine-fuelled confidences between two teachers in a Polish cafe in South Kensington, waves of grief and rudeness during a performance of Orphee at Covent Garden, and a dreadful anniversary dinner for a timber merchant and his wife somewhere in south London. There is a corporate Burns Night in a Mayfair hotel where poetry and money collide catastrophically, and an enormous air disaster which starts by destroying the glasshouses at Kew and ends by obliterating the placid domestic streets for miles around. One woman passes on the secret of wurstigkeit to another in a shopping trip of unbridled sensuousness in the heart of Spitalfields. Seventeen-year-old Jade Beaumont walks towards the jewelled narrative of her future, fiercely resolved not to be like her mother Nicola, who has a succes

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Helen Simpson's two previous collections of stories, Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Dear George, have established her as one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, she was also Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0224060821
• ISBN 13: 9780224060820
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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