Not Her Real Name and Other Stories by Emily Perkins

Not Her Real Name and Other Stories by Emily Perkins

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With unnerving insight and wit, this collectin of short stories present an essential guide to post-modern romance, to the vagaries of city life and to a chronically self-absorbed generation whose love affairs are never as good as the last movies they've seen.

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Not Her Real Name and Other Stories by Emily Perkins

Emily Perkins captures perfectly the intense world of love, art and waitressing in this debut collection of short stories. She brings modern life into harsh and comic focus with a cinematic vision for character and dialogue and a cast of young and painfully vulnerable metropolitans. 'A stunning first collection: addictive, smart, scary, wise and profoundly funny. Perkins has the enviable Alice Munro knack of crafting tiny stories with the scope of novels, characters who convince within a paragraph, dialogue which stings with its unresolved sadness and comfortless truths' Julie Myerson
Emily Perkins was born in 1970. She is the author of Not Her Real Name , a collection of short stories which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize, the novels Leave Before You Go and The New Girl. She lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9780330342667
ISBN 10 0330342665
Title Not Her Real Name and Other Stories
Author Emily Perkins
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2002-05-10
Number of pages 272
Prizes Winner of Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1998 (UK)
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