Waiting for a Party

Claire Meadows, 92, reminiscences about her life, her failed ambition to become a concert pianist, her missed opportunity to have a child, her friends and lovers, mostly dead, she is troubled by the part she played, consciously and deliberately, in the death of her husband.

Info autore

Vesna Main was born in Zagreb, Croatia, where she studied Comparative Literature, before obtaining a Phd in Elizabethan Studies from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. She later worked as a journalist, lecturer and arts administrator. Her published fiction includes a short story collection, Temptation (Salt, 2018), a novel-in-dialogue, Good Day? (Salt, 2019), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize, an autofiction, Only A Lodger … And Hardly That (Seagull Books 2020), and a novella, ‘Bruno and Adèle’ in Shorts III (Platypus Press, 2021). Two of her stories are published in Best British Short Stories (Salt 2017, 2019); many others have appeared in journals in print and online. In her writing, Main is interested in telling stories in ways that explore and extend the boundaries of the narrative genre.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vesna Main
• Editore: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781784633226
• ISBN: 978-1-78463-322-6
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Salt Modern Fiction
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general