Good Clean Fun by Michael Arditti
Short stories from the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti
[These stories] simply and elegantly break your heartThey deserve a wide audience, and will create a wiser one -- Amanda Craig * Literary Review *
Arditti imbues his stories of loneliness, confusion and the uncertainties of sexual neophytes with genuine pathos and . . . humour * The Times *
At his best when he . . . allows his characters to seduce us with nothing more than the ordinariness of their lives * Times Literary Supplement *
The diverse, urbane stories here ARE good, some of them are fun, and others are far from clean -- Shena Mackay
These are grown-up stories for grown-up people . . . presented in often extreme and dramatic narratives -- Michael Langan * Attitude *
A simply outstanding collection . . . Elegant, tender, shocking, full of wit and insight - these stories are never less than beautifully executed * Manchester City Life *
Arditti imbues his stories of loneliness, confusion and the uncertainties of sexual neophytes with genuine pathos and . . . humour * The Times *
At his best when he . . . allows his characters to seduce us with nothing more than the ordinariness of their lives * Times Literary Supplement *
The diverse, urbane stories here ARE good, some of them are fun, and others are far from clean -- Shena Mackay
These are grown-up stories for grown-up people . . . presented in often extreme and dramatic narratives -- Michael Langan * Attitude *
A simply outstanding collection . . . Elegant, tender, shocking, full of wit and insight - these stories are never less than beautifully executed * Manchester City Life *
Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents (Pagan's Father in the USA) (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006), The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011), The Breath of Night (2013), Widows and Orphans (2016), Of Men and Angels (2018) and The Anointed (2020). His short story collection, Good Clean Fun, was published in 2004. He was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes memorial award in 2003 and Arts Council awards in 2004 and 2007. He was the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud museum in 2008. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several literary awards and Easter won the inaugural Waterstone's Mardi Gras award. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Chester.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904559085 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904559085 |
| Title | Good Clean Fun |
| Author | Michael Arditti |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2004-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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