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Informationen zum Autor Wendy Erskine lives in Belfast. Sweet Home , her first collection of stories, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. It was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and won the 2020 Butler Literary Award. Klappentext 'Daring, funny, heartbreaking' - Observer 'One of the greats' - Lucy Caldwell, author of Intimacies 'Comic brilliance' - Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations * As Read on BBC Radio 4 * Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize * The Irish Times Books of the Year * From the prize-winning author of The Benefactors , Wendy Erskine's Dance Move is about the hugeness of life as seen through glimpses of the everyday. Meet Drew Lord Haig, called on to sing an obscure hit from his youth at a paramilitary event. Meet Max as he recalls an eventful journey to a Christian film festival. And Mrs Dallesandro who dreams of being a teenager again as she sits in a tanning salon on her wedding anniversary. In these stories, Erskine's characters' wishes and hopes often fall short of their grasp. 'Ingenious' - The Irish Times Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year Zusammenfassung From critically acclaimed Northern Irish writer Wendy Erskine: a collection of profound and darkly funny stories about people trying to move on with their lives, while bound to the past.
