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Zusatztext “Masterful, understated….Clever Girl, like the fiction of V.S. Pritchett or Alice McDermott, is devoted to capturing personality through small actions and expressions, to sparking characters into a vivid flame with a few exact descriptions and to distilling domestic settings into precious, even exalted significance.” Informationen zum Autor Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Clever Girl and The Past, as well as three short story collections, most recently Bad Dreams and Other Stories , which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker ; in 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. She lives in London. Klappentext An indelible story of one woman's life, revealed in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain's leading literary lights--Tessa Hadley."Clever Girl is...what could be called a 'sensibility' novel--a story that doesn't overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn't ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power."--Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book ReviewClever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an Englishwoman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley's involving and moving novel follows Stella from childhood, growing up with her single mother in a Bristol bedsit, into the murky waters of middle age. It is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama--violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances. Yet it is Hadley's observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another that elevate this tale into "a beautiful and precisely drawn portrait of an everywoman, both extraordinary and ordinary" (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Zusammenfassung An indelible story of one woman’s life! revealed in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era! moving from the 1960s to today! from one of Britain’s leading literary lights—Tessa Hadley. “ Clever Girl is…what could be called a ‘sensibility’ novel—a story that doesn’t overreach! about a character who feels real! told in prose that isn’t ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power.”—Meg Wolitzer! New York Times Book Review Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life! witnessed through the experiences of an Englishwoman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots! Tessa Hadley’s involving and moving novel follows Stella from childhood! growing up with her single mother in a Bristol bedsit! into the murky waters of middle age. It is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama—violent deaths! failed affairs! broken dreams! missed chances. Yet it is Hadley’s observations of everyday life! her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another that elevate this tale into “a beautiful and precisely drawn portrait of an everywoman! both extraordinary and ordinary” ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ). ...
