Something Like Happy by John Burnside

Something Like Happy by John Burnside

In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment. These are people for whom the idea of ‘home’ has become increasingly intangible, hard to believe – and happiness, or grace, or freedom, all now seem to belong in some kind of dream, or a fable they might have read in a children's picture book. As he says in one story, ‘All a man has is his work and his sense of himself, all the secret life he holds inside that nobody else can know.’ But in each of these normal, damaged lives, we are shown something extraordinary: a dogged belief in some kind of hope or beauty that flies in the face of all reason and is, as a result, both transfiguring and heart-rending. ‘There is no telling what kind of gifts one of John Burnside’s wonderful sentences will contain.’ Anne Enright

Each story has a splash of intense colour at the heart… These are Scottish versions of the stories of Raymond Carver… Burnside writes tough, home-grown prose that inhabits the story form with perfect fit-- Brian Morton * Independent *
A haunting and beautiful collection that deserves to be read slowly and savoured but which you won’t be able to put down. -- Caroline Jowett * Daily Express *
Masterly… A spiritual, haunting book. -- Francesca Angelini * Sunday Times *
Burnside’s prose glitters. -- Leyla Sanai * Independent on Sunday *
Burnside brings a poet’s linguistic precision and emotional acuity… The writer’s deep, bloody engagement with the stuff of life can't fail to leave the reader enlivened, and keen to feel more. -- Hannah McGill * Scotland on Sunday *

John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2024, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.

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ISBN 13	9780099575597
ISBN 10	0099575590
Titel	Something Like Happy
Autor	John Burnside
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-04-03
Seitenanzahl	256
Preise	Winner of Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2013 (UK), Winner of The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2014 (UK)
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