Books
Here is the shiny new cover for "What Becomes" - image created by the excellent gentleman and photographer, Kevin Low. You may wish to order a copy from the splendid WORDPOWER bookshop. Or feel free to make your own arrangements for purchase and delighted posession. Reviews have been good - although you know how seriously we take them - and will be posted soon elsewhere. Below you can read an extract of the cover blurb, kindly provided by Jonathan Cape.
"Always attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility - each story a dramatisation of the instant in a life that exposes it all; love and the lack of love, hope and the lack of hope.
These men and women are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder, who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; whos risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger. They conceal tenderness and disappointment, vulnerability and longing, griefs and wonders...
A.L.Kennedy's fifth remarkable collection of short stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption of love - and she does so with the enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and the brilliantly orginal linguistic skill that distinguishes her as one of Britain's finest writers."
Listen to a reading of one of the stories given at the 2008 Edinburgh International Book Festival here>>. Recording courtesy of the fine folks at the EIBF.
I’m still not listing reviews for DAY – It won a 
This book will be about people who risk death
for a living. Whatever you or I think of how and why they do this,
they
are making that commitment every working day- a commitment which I am
pointing out I know that I can't equal...
Hannah Luckraft knows the taste of paradise. It’s hidden in the peace of open country, it’s sweet on her lover’s skin, it flavours every drink she’s ever taken, but it never seems to stay.
The twelve stories
in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable
human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift
of all:
Nathan
Staples is comsumed by loathing and love in equal measures.He is sustained
only by his passionate devotion to his estranged wife, Maura, and their
teenage daughter, Mary -
The stories in
Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities
of sex and the lack of it. Whether in Copenhagen or New York City,
in the close confines of a TV
Mary Margaret
Hamilton was educated in Scotland. She was born there too. These
may not have been the best possible options, but they were the only
ones on offer at the time.
Although her father did his best,
A.L.Kennedy's
first collection of short stories shows a talented individual at work.
Tender, precise,
comic and chilling by turn, the stories in A.L.Kennedy's new collection
confirm her reputation as one of the most exciting new writers to have
appeared in the last decade.
