The Story
Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories
Will be published approx. on 26. September 2013
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-1-78185-116-6 (ISBN)
Description
Witty, heartbreaking, shocking, satirical: the short story can excite or sadden, entice or repulse. The one thing it can never be is dull. Now Victoria Hislop, passionate ambassador for the art of the short story, has collected 100 stories from her favourite women writers into one volume.
Here are Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates, well-known feminists and famous wits, national treasures and rising stars. All handpicked by one of the nation's best-loved novelists, there's a story for every mood, mind-set and moment in life.
Featuring an all star cast of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Penelope Fitzgerald, Miranda July, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Dorothy Parker and Virginia Woolf, The Story is the biggest and most beautiful collection of women's short fiction in print today.
Here are Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates, well-known feminists and famous wits, national treasures and rising stars. All handpicked by one of the nation's best-loved novelists, there's a story for every mood, mind-set and moment in life.
Featuring an all star cast of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Penelope Fitzgerald, Miranda July, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Dorothy Parker and Virginia Woolf, The Story is the biggest and most beautiful collection of women's short fiction in print today.
Reviews / Votes
'This huge, beautiful book is a treasure chest ... a collection so good, it's essential' The Times. 'A celebration of female writers with contributions from many of our favourites' Good Housekeeping. 'Beautiful ... glittering ... The scope is wide, rich and often unexpected ... it blows Bridget out of the water' Independent. '[This] has given me more pleasure this year than almost all the rest of my reading put together.' Mariella Frostrup. 'A rich feast.' Nigella Lawson.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78185-116-6 (9781781851166)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
08/2013
1st Edition
Head of Zeus
€10.99
Available for download
Person
Victoria Hislop read English at Oxford. Her first novel, THE ISLAND, was Number One for eight consecutive weeks and has sold over two million copies worldwide. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.