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New Harvest
May 2014
On Sale: April 29, 2014
224 pages
ISBN: 0544307046
EAN: 9780544307049
Kindle: B00FL42G52
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Women's Fiction
A.L. Kennedy, the author of The Blue Book and Day, writes
like a force of nature. Claire Messud says she’s “one of
Britain’s most iconoclastic and fiercely independent
talents.” Richard Ford calls her “a profound writer,” and
Ali Smith dubbed her “the laureate of good hurt.” All the Rage is Kennedy’s riveting new collection, a
luscious feast of language that encompasses real estate and
forlorn pets, adolescents and sixtysomethings, weekly
liaisons and obsessive affairs, “certain types of threat and
the odder edges of sweet things.” The women and men in these
dozen stories search for love, solace, and a clear glimpse
of what their lives have become. Anything can set them off
thinking—the sad homogeneity of hotel breakfasts, a sex shop
operated under Canadian values (whatever those are), an army
of joggers dressed as Santa. With her boundless empathy and gift for the perfect phrase,
Kennedy makes us care about each of her characters. In
“Takes You Home,” a man’s attempt to sell his flat becomes a
journey to the interior, by turns comic and harrowing. And
“Late in Life” deftly evokes an intergenerational love
affair free of the usual clichés, the younger partner asking
the older, “What should I wear at your funeral?” Alive with memory, humor, and longing, All the Rage is A.L.
Kennedy at her inimitable best.
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