Your Father Sends His Love by Stuart Evers
The twelve unforgettable stories in Your Father Sends His Love explore the complex, baffling, and vital relationship between parents and their children. Set in the past, present and future, they are unified by their compassion, animated by the unsaid, and distinguished by how beautifully they extract the luminous from the ordinary. With wit, subtllety, and uncommon sensitivity, Evers captures the powerful emotions of family life: joy, fear, vulnerability, duty, betrayal, loss, anger, and unconditional love. While his characters often feel more than they can express, they are in the hands of a masterful story teller who gives time to what might otherwise seem incidental. Your Father Sends His Love is a powerful, haunting, and deeply felt work about the most important relationships we will ever know.
Evers's writing is sequined with sparkling descriptions * Independent *
Proof that the story form remains in rude healthQuietly brilliant and moving -- Ian Rankin
Evers's everymen break my heart -- Eimear McBride
Excellent . . . Evers is extraordinarily good a depicting everyday pressures, deceptions and intimacies . . . Rich, provocative and often intensely sad * Metro *
Stuart Evers writes with great subtlety about all the ways we estrange ourselves from the people we love and about the rare moments of grace in which we somehow stumble home again -- Jenny Offill
There are some wonderful things in here * Spectator *
Clearly a master of the short story . . . Intriguing everyday stories that are skilfully observed and perfectly described. * The Press and Journal *
Witty and accomplished, turning a phrase on a sixpence . . . Evers's sparse prose resounds meaningfully, sending out ripples across the pond of family life, recognising both the difficulty and joy of 'relating'. * Daily Mail *
[Evers's] artistry has gone into timing reversals and revelations for maximum emotional impact . . . [A] tender, unshowy collection. * Observer *
Proof that the story form remains in rude healthQuietly brilliant and moving -- Ian Rankin
Evers's everymen break my heart -- Eimear McBride
Excellent . . . Evers is extraordinarily good a depicting everyday pressures, deceptions and intimacies . . . Rich, provocative and often intensely sad * Metro *
Stuart Evers writes with great subtlety about all the ways we estrange ourselves from the people we love and about the rare moments of grace in which we somehow stumble home again -- Jenny Offill
There are some wonderful things in here * Spectator *
Clearly a master of the short story . . . Intriguing everyday stories that are skilfully observed and perfectly described. * The Press and Journal *
Witty and accomplished, turning a phrase on a sixpence . . . Evers's sparse prose resounds meaningfully, sending out ripples across the pond of family life, recognising both the difficulty and joy of 'relating'. * Daily Mail *
[Evers's] artistry has gone into timing reversals and revelations for maximum emotional impact . . . [A] tender, unshowy collection. * Observer *
Stuart Evers is the author of Ten Stories About Smoking (winner of the London Book Award) and a highly acclaimed novel, If This is Home. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447280583 |
| ISBN 10 | 144728058X |
| Title | Your Father Sends His Love |
| Author | Stuart Evers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2016-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2016 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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