TENDERNESS
Author: Sarah Quigley
RRP: $37.99
Released: 04 July 2014
Imprint:
Vintage
Sarah Quigley's utterly beguiling novel, The Conductor, re-imagining the
writing of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony and its historic performance in
besieged Leningrad was an instant world-wide bestseller.
Now she returns to a
favourite prose form of hers – and one for which she’s long been celebrated –
with a new collection of short fiction called ‘Tenderness’.
Differing in length and style, these
short stories are connected by the themes they explore: love, friendship and
intimacy in their many forms.
Berlin-based Sarah Quigley has an impressive track
record as a fiction writer, and these stories will not disappoint.
Stylistically assured, emotionally resonant, they are guaranteed to capture
minds and hearts.
I suggest, as with all short story collections, that you read the stories individually, perhaps one or two a day, rather than reading for an hour or two at a time as you would if you were reading a novel. They vary enormously in length, one running to a single page while the wonderful opening story, The Marriage Mender,(my favourite), runs to 70,000+ words (74 pages) and could be described as a short novella.
I warmly recommend this collection, I was enchanted.Note publication 4 July.
I suggest, as with all short story collections, that you read the stories individually, perhaps one or two a day, rather than reading for an hour or two at a time as you would if you were reading a novel. They vary enormously in length, one running to a single page while the wonderful opening story, The Marriage Mender,(my favourite), runs to 70,000+ words (74 pages) and could be described as a short novella.
I warmly recommend this collection, I was enchanted.Note publication 4 July.
About the author:
Sarah Quigley, (left- photo by Sebastian Schrade),was born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
She is a novelist,
critic, non-fiction writer, poet and columnist.
She has a D.Phil. in Literature
from the University of Oxford and is a graduate of Bill Manhire’s creative
writing course. In 1998 she won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship and in
2000 the inaugural Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency.
Her short
stories and poems have been widely broadcast and published and have won many
prizes, including the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and the Commonwealth
Pacific Rim Short Story Award. Her publications include novels, short
fiction, a creative writing manual and poetry collections, many of which have
sold internationally.
The Conductor has sold throughout the world, and
was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and
short-listed for the prestigious Prix Femina.
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