Exciting Times
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
(Sprache: Englisch)
When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents' money, it's called a gap year, When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she's not sure what to call it, but it involves:
- a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich...
- a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich...
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When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents' money, it's called a gap year, When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she's not sure what to call it, but it involves:- a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich children;
- Julian, who likes to spend money on Ava and lets her move into his guest room;
- Edith, who Ava meets while Julian is out of town and actually listens to her when she talks;
- money, love, cynicism, unspoken feelings and unlikely connections,
Exciting times ensue,
Autoren-Porträt von Naoise Dolan
Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer born in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, followed by a master's in Victorian literature at Oxford. She writes fiction, essays, criticism and features for publications including The London Review of Books, The Guardian and Vogue.Naoise's debut novel EXCITING TIMES was published by W&N in the UK and by Ecco in the US in 2020, and became a Sunday Times bestseller, widely translated and optioned for TV. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for several prizes, including The Women's Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Naoise Dolan
- 2021, 288 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 1474613462
- ISBN-13: 9781474613460
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
I had real fun with EXCITING TIMES. It is a very funny, spiky, Marxist, feminist comedy and it's really mean. Zadie Smith
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