Story: Life - Great Short Stories for Women By Women

'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...'
Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars.
All the stories in this volume are about life - happy, sad, mundane and extraordinary - it is captured here in all its rich variety.
CONTRIBUTORS: Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Gilchrist, Dorothy Parker, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, Margaret Atwood, Penelope Lively, Anita Desai, Alice Munro, Elspeth Davie, Penelope Fitzgerald, Alice Walker, A. M. Homes, Anne Enright, Elizabeth Jolley, Jane Gardam, Alison Lurie, Nicola Barker, Jennifer Egan, Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, A. S. Byatt, Maggie Gee, Ali Smith, A. L. Kennedy, Polly Samson, Helen Simpson and Stella Duffy.

About the author

Victoria Hislop lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Kindern in Kent und schreibt unter anderem Reiseberichte für verschiedene Zeitungen und Frauenzeitschriften. Überdies unterstützt sie die Hilfsorganisation LEPRA.

Summary

THE LIVES OF WOMEN collection from Victoria Hislop's THE STORY, 100 short stories written by women, selected and introduced by one of the nation's favourite novelists.

Additional text

'A rich feast.' Nigella Lawson.

Report

'[This] has given me more pleasure this year than almost all the rest of my reading put together.' Mariella Frostrup

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Hislop
• Assisted by: Victori Hislop (Editor), Victoria Hislop (Editor), Hislop Victoria (Editor)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781781856666
• ISBN: 978-1-78185-666-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Anthologies; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary