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Milkman Anna Burns

Milkman By Anna Burns

Milkman by Anna Burns


$15.49
Condition - Very Good
40+ in stock

Summary

Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness.

Milkman Summary

Milkman by Anna Burns

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019 'Blazing.' Daily Telegraph 'Outstanding.' New Statesman 'A triumph.' Guardian 'Utterly compelling.' Irish Times 'The best Booker winner in years.' Metro In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, 'Milkman'. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control . . .

About Anna Burns

Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two previous novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Milkman has to date won the Man Booker Prize 2018, been shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the Rathbone's Folio Prize, and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Anna Burns lives in East Sussex, England.

Additional information

GOR009439530
9780571338757
0571338755
Milkman by Anna Burns
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
2018-09-20
368
Winner of Man Booker Prize 2018
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