Madame Zero - Softcover

Hall, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571290019 ISBN 13: 9780571290017

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2017

Synopsis

[Read by Billie Fulford-Brown]

From one of the most accomplished British writers working today, the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Wolf Border, comes a unique and arresting collection of short fiction that is both disturbing and dazzling.

Sarah Hall has been hailed as ''one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists'' (Guardian), a writer whose ''intelligence and ambition are thrilling to behold'' (BookForum). Her work has been acclaimed as ''amazing...terrific and original.'' (Washington Post). In this collection of nine works of short fiction, she uses her piercing insight to plumb the depth of the female experience and the human soul.

A husband's wife transforms into a vulpine in ''Mrs. Fox,'' winner of the BBC Short Story Prize. In ''Case Study 2,'' A social worker struggles with a foster child raised in a commune. A new mother runs into an old lover in ''Luxury Hour.'' In incandescent prose, full of rich observations and striking clarity, Hall has composed nine wholly original pieces -- works of fiction that will resonate long after the final page is turned.

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From one of the most daring and original writers working today comes a unique and dazzling collection of short fiction

Sarah Hall has been hailed as a writer whose “intelligence and ambition are thrilling to behold” (BookForum). Her work has been praised as “amazing . . . terrific and original” (Washington Post). Already acclaimed as a prizewinning nov-elist, she is now equally fêted as a radically gifted short-story writer.

A husband’s wife transforms into a canid in “Mrs. Fox,” winner of the BBC National Short Story Award. In “Case Study 2” a social worker struggles with a foster child raised in a commune. A new mother runs into an old lover in “Luxury Hour.” Set in the hinterland between the mundane and surreal, and marked by a fascination with the intimacy of nature—and the nature of intimacy—these nine astonishing stories will resonate long after the final page is turned.

About the Author

Sarah Hall received a Masters of Letters in creative writing from Scotland's St. Andrews University, and is the author of four novels, The Wolf Border; Haweswater, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize; The Electric Michelangelo; and Daughters Of The North, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her story collection The Beautiful Indifference won the Portico Prize and was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. She lives in Norwich, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571290019
• ISBN 13: 9780571290017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192