Michel Faber

Some Rain Must Fall And Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"A bulging, jostling, glistening, eerie, babbling explosion of a book." The Scotsman

Michel Faber's first collection of short stories reveals an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language
and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords.

"His prose veers sharply from a delectable descriptiveness to spikily comic insights. Cerebral and observant ... here is a talent in the ascendant." The Observer

"Each of the fifteen stories has such an entirely different voice that the book reads like the work of different writers. A rare and vivid imagination and a radical use of language draws them together." The Times

"A gem of inventiveness, a genre-defying, often startling debut." Scotland on Sunday

"Michel Faber is a master of the short story form." Times Literary Supplement

"A collection of astonishingly diverse short stories and one of last year's most original debuts." The Independent

"Lovers of the short story take note: Somerset Maugham has shacked up with Ian McEwan, and Some Rain Must Fall
is their monstrous, magnificent first-born." Duncan McLean

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847674067
• Artikelnr.: 38357622

Autorenporträt

Michel Faber has written nine books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Book of Strange New Things, The Fire Gospel and The Fahrenheit Twins. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.

Rezensionen

You don't often see satire stirred with so humane a hand, or tragedy handled with so light a touch . . . This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence Guardian