The Pangs Of Love by Jane Gardam
This collection of short stories reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people; ladies with a "thing" about vicars, strange events in ornate lavatories, and the English abroad - desperate and dotty. All suffer the pangs of love - fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual.
There is, in Jane Gardam's writing, the air of a magicianEach story unfolds with precision, art concealing art, and with a marvellously satisfying punch line * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
A spare and elegant master of her art * THE TIMES *
Exuberant narration and stylish dialogue; I read it with relish... powerful and haunting. * Penelope Lively, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Marvellously precise sleight-of-hand short stories. * DAILY MAIL *
All the stories possess a delicacy and economy which leaves one, having read them, with just the right measure of pleasurable incompleteness * FINANCIAL TIMES *
Assured and enjoyable * STANDARD *
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Observer *
A spare and elegant master of her art * THE TIMES *
Exuberant narration and stylish dialogue; I read it with relish... powerful and haunting. * Penelope Lively, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Marvellously precise sleight-of-hand short stories. * DAILY MAIL *
All the stories possess a delicacy and economy which leaves one, having read them, with just the right measure of pleasurable incompleteness * FINANCIAL TIMES *
Assured and enjoyable * STANDARD *
She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Observer *
Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349114040 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349114048 |
| Title | The Pangs Of Love |
| Author | Jane Gardam |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1997-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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