Sarah Crossan

Hey, Zoey

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Produktbeschreibung

A provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection, and all the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take in a lifetime. 'Inventive astute and funny' Observer 'As rip-roaring as it is thought provoking' i'A love triangle, but with a twist' Guardian'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting' Claire Kilroy'Funny and dark. Tender and tough. Uncanny and relatable' Erin KellyImagine discovering an animatronic sex doll hidden in the garage. What would you do?Dolores initially does nothing. She assumes the doll belongs to her husband, David, and their relationship is already strained. They're not young, they're not old; they have no children, they keep up with the markers of being middle class and Dolores is well versed in keeping men's secrets. But then, Dolores and Zoey start to talk ...What surfaces runs deeper than Dolores could have ever expected, with consequences for all of the relationships in her life, especially her relationship to herself. Hey, Zoey is a propulsive story of love, family, and trauma in our tech-buffered age of alienation, as strange as it is familiar. 'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen'A singular writer with her own style and conviction' Irish Times 'It makes you think, and it makes you feel' Lesley Glaister'The beauty of its prose keeps ... Keeps the reader gripped' Irish Independent

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 143mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781526619860
• ISBN-10: 1526619865
• Artikelnr.: 69300285

Autorenporträt

Sarah Crossan grew up in Dublin and London. Her books for children and teenagers have won many prizes including the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal, the CBI Book of the Year, the YA Book Prize, and the CLiPPA Poetry Award. Her first novel for adults, Here Is The Beehive, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim. Sarah's novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She currently lives and works in East Sussex.

Rezensionen

Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny, Sarah Crossan's Hey, Zoey explores the impossibility of connection, and the things we hide from ourselves and the people we love SARAH DUNN, bestselling author of The Arrangement

'Highly inventive, astute and funny ... A thought-provoking reflection on loneliness, love and the search for connection'