The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner
The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday reunion. Pitch perfect, darkly comic and brimming with life - in all its squalor, rage, tears and laughter - this is an unforgettable story of female friendship. Longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.
Memorably bittersweet.. [with] brilliantly pitched dialogue and monologue. The final cataclysmic scene is masterly * Guardian *
The way that this middle-aged man manages to inhabit a gang of girls with such gusto and conviction is one of the small miracles of contemporary fiction, and Warner has done it once again -- Phil Baker * The Sunday Times *
This is a snarly group picaresque, a black comedy in which Gatwick airport is like Kafka's Castle in reverse... stifling, hilarious and indelible -- Nora Chassler * Scottish Review of Books *
Warner navigates the comic, the philosophical and the socially acute like no other writer we have * Independent *
Vigorous and uncannily convincing... Readers would be sorry if Warner were to have finished with these characters * Daily Telegraph *
The way that this middle-aged man manages to inhabit a gang of girls with such gusto and conviction is one of the small miracles of contemporary fiction, and Warner has done it once again -- Phil Baker * The Sunday Times *
This is a snarly group picaresque, a black comedy in which Gatwick airport is like Kafka's Castle in reverse... stifling, hilarious and indelible -- Nora Chassler * Scottish Review of Books *
Warner navigates the comic, the philosophical and the socially acute like no other writer we have * Independent *
Vigorous and uncannily convincing... Readers would be sorry if Warner were to have finished with these characters * Daily Telegraph *
Alan Warner is the author of six other novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099461821 |
| ISBN 10 | 009946182X |
| Title | The Stars in the Bright Sky |
| Author | Alan Warner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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