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Four Bare Legs In a Bed

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Simpson, Helen

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<p>&apos;Stories told in such succulent prose that you wince at their brevity... a most exceptional debut&apos; - <i>Evening Standard</i></p><p><i></i></p><p><b>Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.</b></p>

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<p>Brilliant, funny and tragic,<i>Four Bare Legs in a Bed</i>is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies.</p><p><b>By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award.</b></p>

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<b>Helen Simpson's</b>sixth short-story collection,<i>Cockfosters</i>, follows<i>Four Bare Legs in a Bed</i>(1990),<i>Dear George</i>(1995),<i>Hey Yeah Right Get a Life</i>(2000),<i>Constitutional</i>(2005) and<i>In-Flight Entertainment</i>(2010).<i>A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories</i>(2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. She lives in London.

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Erschienen: 27.11.2014

Umfang: 192 S., 0.32 MB

Sprache: ENG

ISBN/EAN: 9781446499955

Umbreit-Nr.: 7546578

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