Supporting Cast
Autor Kit de Waalen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iul 2020
'Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly'Stylist
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As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning.
A blind man on his wedding day celebrates the pursuit of love.
And a young man leaves prison with only one desire - to see his son again.
Kit de Waal's characters light up the page in vivid stories of thwarted desire, love and loss. With power and precision, humanity and insight,Supporting Castcaptures the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives, and the darkness and the joy of the everyday.
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'It's so good. Full of Kit's trademark humanity. I can feel my heart grow with every word'Cathy Rentzenbrink
'Stunning.Kit is in utter command of language and story here, and wields them like no other writer'Donal Ryan
'A magnificent study of humanity in all its various sorrows. Her writing is exquisite'Liz Nugent
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241973424
ISBN-10: 0241973422
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241973422
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Kit
de
Waal,
born
to
an
Irish
mother
and
Caribbean
father,
was
brought
up
among
the
Irish
community
of
Birmingham
in
the
60's
and
70's.
Her
debut
novelMy
Name
Is
Leonwas
an
international
bestseller,
shortlisted
for
the
Costa
First
Novel
Award,
longlisted
for
the
Desmond
Elliott
Prize
and
won
the
Kerry
Group
Irish
Novel
of
the
Year
Award
for
2017.
Her
second
novel,The
Trick
to
Time,was
longlisted
for
the
Women's
Prize
and
her
young
adult
novelBecoming
Dinahis
shortlisted
for
the
Carnegie
CLIP
Award
2020.
She
also
crowdfunded
and
edited
an
anthology
of
working
class
memoir,Common
People,which
was
published
in
2018.
Kit
was
named
the
FutureBook
Person
of
the
Year
in
2019.
Recenzii
Kit
de
Waal
has
written?a
book
that
is
absolutely
right
for
the
summer
of
2020
.
.
.This
is
a
book
you
could
read
on
a
journey,
on
a
beach,
in
a
single
sitting
between
dinner
and
bedtime.
Andafterwards
feel
more
connected
to
the
world...
It'sa
treatfor
her
many
existing
fans
-
but
new
readers
can
very
much
start
here
It's so good. Full of Kit's trademark humanity. I can feel my heart grow with every word
Stunning. What an experience,the brightest and most beautiful break in the clouds. Kit is in utter command of language and story here, and wields them like no other writer
Kit hasthe most marvellous gift of getting to the marrow of her charactersand this collection of vignettes from the lives of her characters, peripheral, and not so peripheral, isa magnificent study of humanity in all its various sorrows. Her writing isexquisite, not a word is wasted and the stories arebeautiful in their simplicity and truth
Written with such beauty
Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly
Superb. [The characters] blaze intorichly imagined lives full of loss, love, abandonment and heartfelt hope
Anemotionally sure-handednovel exploringharrowing terrain with deft sensitivity
Theunforgettablestory of a boy struggling to belong.Heartbreaking and uplifting - just read it
Devastatingly emotional.De Waal's storytellinggives us the poetry and sorrow of life itself
Tender and heart-breaking
It's so good. Full of Kit's trademark humanity. I can feel my heart grow with every word
Stunning. What an experience,the brightest and most beautiful break in the clouds. Kit is in utter command of language and story here, and wields them like no other writer
Kit hasthe most marvellous gift of getting to the marrow of her charactersand this collection of vignettes from the lives of her characters, peripheral, and not so peripheral, isa magnificent study of humanity in all its various sorrows. Her writing isexquisite, not a word is wasted and the stories arebeautiful in their simplicity and truth
Written with such beauty
Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly
Superb. [The characters] blaze intorichly imagined lives full of loss, love, abandonment and heartfelt hope
Anemotionally sure-handednovel exploringharrowing terrain with deft sensitivity
Theunforgettablestory of a boy struggling to belong.Heartbreaking and uplifting - just read it
Devastatingly emotional.De Waal's storytellinggives us the poetry and sorrow of life itself
Tender and heart-breaking