Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera: Jeanette Winterson

Name: Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera: By Jeanette Winterson
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Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera: by Jeanette Winterson

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Summary

Specially commissioned short story collection with stellar contributors, all based on the stories behind favourite operas.

Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera: Summary

Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:: with Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Ali Smith & more by Jeanette Winterson

With Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Kate Mosse, Andrew Motion, Colm Toibin, Joanna Trollope, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson & more

In this stunning collection, the best and brightest writers working today reimagine familiar stories from the greatest operas. Don Giovanni's ghost haunts a young boy, Fidelio meets Porgy and Bess and two hapless men stage a Mozartian love test. Long-lost loves enter the dating game and undying witches finally get grey hairs. Funny, macabre or irreverent, these stories are charming for any opera lover and a beguiling collection in their own right.

Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera: Reviews

Winterson's stellar cast delivers plenty of incident as well as atmosphere to power this upbeat collection * Financial Times *
Soars to some hugely enjoyable climaxes * Irish Times *
Wonderfully innovative, creative and fun * The Times *
Offers a glimpse of how the inspirational and the creative juices interact * Spectator *

About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel. Since then she has written eight other novels, including The Passion and been published in 32 countries, as well as adapting her work for TV, film and stage. She lives in Gloucestershire and London.

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Sku

GOR010314107

ISBN 13

9781787479555

ISBN 10

1787479552

Title

Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:: with Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Ali Smith & more by Jeanette Winterson

Author

Jeanette Winterson

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Quercus Publishing

Year published

20190418

Number of pages

336

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins