Yesterday's Weather

Includes Taking Pictures and Other Stories

Anne Enright

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Vintage
01 May 2009

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking Pictures'.

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking Pictures'.

In Yesterday's Weather, Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright's characters are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out. A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by an swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. This collection includes some of Enright's best loved stories as well as her latest works. These are sharp, vivid tales of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.

By: Anne Enright
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9780099520993
ISBN 10: 0099520990
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 May 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published one previous collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and four novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? - shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore Award, The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch and The Gathering. A story in this collection, 'Honey', won the Davy Byrne's Irish Writing Award.

Reviews for Yesterday's Weather: Includes Taking Pictures and Other Stories

Acclaim for the internationally bestselling The Gathering: Such incredible sentences . . . it's unlikely you'll find a more precisely rendered depiction of the hypocrisy, minor hysterics, and comforting ritual of an Irish wake. -- Globe and Mail Enright is a daring writer -- witty, original and inventive. . . . Utterly compelling. -- Daily Mail Reckless intelligence, savage humor, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright's fiction is jet dark -- but how it glitters. -- New York Times Book Review A lyrical meditation on memory and connectedness . . . dreamy . . . wise. . . . Like Ali Smith, Enright is an original. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the Hardcover edition.