Something Like Happy
Ausgezeichnet: Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2013, Ausgezeichnet: The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2014
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Product details:
- Edition number New
- Publisher Random House UK
- Date of Publication 4 January 2013
- Number of Volumes Demy Octavo
- ISBN 9780224097031
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 223x141x24 mm
- Weight 390 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A collection of masterpieces in short fiction in praise of hope, from prize-winning author John Burnside.
Scottish Book of the Year 2013
Long description:
In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely, unfaithful, dying - driving empty roads at night. These are people for whom the idea of 'home' has become increasingly intangible, hard to believe - and happiness, or grace, or freedom, all now seem to belong in some kind of dream, or a fable they might have read in a children's picture book. As he says in one story, 'All a man has is his work and his sense of himself, all the secret life he holds inside that nobody else can know.' But in each of these normal, damaged lives, we are shown something extraordinary: a dogged belief in some kind of hope or beauty that flies in the face of all reason and is, as a result, both transfiguring and heart-rending.
John Burnside is unique in contemporary British letters: he is one of our best living poets, but he is also a thrillingly talented writer of fiction. These exquisitely written pieces, each weighted so perfectly, opens up the whole wound of a life in one moment - and each of these twelve short stories carries the freight and density of a great novel.
Scottish Book of the Year 2013
Each story has a splash of intense colour at the heart... These are Scottish versions of the stories of Raymond Carver... Burnside writes tough, home-grown prose that inhabits the story form with perfect fit. Brian Morton Independent
