Yesterday's Weather
Author | : Anne Enright |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2009-06-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781555848507 |
ISBN-13 | : 1555848508 |
Rating | : 4/5 (508 Downloads) |
Download or read book Yesterday's Weather written by Anne Enright and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, and the Washington Post Book World. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering and Actress, this is a collection of sharp, unpredictable short fiction about people struggling to connect in an increasingly disconnected world. Yesterday’s Weather shows us a rapidly changing Ireland, a land of family and tradition, but also, increasingly, of organic radicchio, cruise-ship vacations, and casual betrayals. An artisan farmer seethes at the patronage of a former Catholic-school classmate, now a successful restaurateur; a bride cheats on her rich husband with an old college friend—a madman who refuses his pills, disappears for weeks on end, and plays the piano like a dream. These and other stories make up a volume that is “astonishing: moving, emotionally accurate, sly, and laugh-out-loud funny” (O, The Oprah Magazine). “A dazzling collection.” —Time Out