M. J. Hyland

How The Light Gets In (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Heartbreaking and compelling." Observer

Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. When she is offered a place as an exchange student at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled . . .

How the Light Gets In is an acutely observed story of adolescence, shot through with spiky humour. In Lou Connor M.J. Hyland has created a larger-than-life heroine who captivates the reader with her vivacity and vulnerability,
from hopeful beginning to unexpected, haunting end.

"Hyland nails the alternating excitement and embarrassment of being a teenager . . . a writer grappling with serious questions about how we make our way through the world."
New York Times

"An astonishingly well-written slice of reality."
Telegraph

"Hyland excels at atmosphere . . . she brings the long-forgotten teenage sensation of drowning in life's uncomprehended complexities horribly alive."
The Times

"An intriguing and disturbing work which shimmers with edgy brilliance."
Sunday Herald

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847676290
• Artikelnr.: 38355119

Autorenporträt

M.J. Hyland is the author of three multi-award-winning novels; How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down and This Is How. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, longlisted for the Dublin International IMPAC prize, twice longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and winner of both the Hawthornden Prize and Encore Prize. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Financial Times, Paris Review and the Guardian. She is co-founder and senior editor at the Hyland & Byrne Editing Firm and was a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester until 2018. @mj_hyland mjhyland.org