Carry Me Down
Autor M.J. HYLANDen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2006
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781841958781
ISBN-10: 1841958786
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 141 x 207 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: Canongate Books
ISBN-10: 1841958786
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 141 x 207 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: Canongate Books
Notă biografică
M.J. Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down, and This is How. Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Hawthornden Prize and The Encore Prize.
Hyland is also a lecturer in Creative Writing in The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester where she runs fiction workshops, alongside Martin Amis, Colm Tóibín, and Jeanette Winterson. She also runs regular fiction masterclasses in The Guardian Masterclass Programme, and has twice been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Prize (2011 and 2012). She also publishes in The Guardian's "How to Write" series, and has written nonfiction for The Financial Times, Granta, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Hyland is co-founder of The Hyland and Byrne Editing Firm (see - editingfirm.com &mjhyland.com)
Hyland is also a lecturer in Creative Writing in The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester where she runs fiction workshops, alongside Martin Amis, Colm Tóibín, and Jeanette Winterson. She also runs regular fiction masterclasses in The Guardian Masterclass Programme, and has twice been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Prize (2011 and 2012). She also publishes in The Guardian's "How to Write" series, and has written nonfiction for The Financial Times, Granta, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Hyland is co-founder of The Hyland and Byrne Editing Firm (see - editingfirm.com &mjhyland.com)
Descriere
Hyland pens a restrained, emotionally taut, and sometimes oddly funny portrait of a misfit--John Egan, a 12-year-old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant, and an obsession for the "Guinness Book of World Records."
Premii
- Man Booker Prize Nominee, 2006