Speaking with the Angel Paperback - 2001
by Nick Hornby (Editor)
In an exciting snapshot of the best edgy literary fiction today, the author of "High Fidelity" presents the anthology of the year: stories by Helen Fielding, Melissa Bank, Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, and others.
Summary
Compiled by bestselling author Nick Hornby and featuring brand new stories from the hottest writers on both sides of the Atlantic, Speaking with the Angel is a fresh and funny collection that is sure to be the literary anthology of the year.
Here is a book that was inspired by a very special boy and a very special school. Some money from each copy of Speaking with the Angel sold will benefit autism education charities around the world, including The Treehouse School in London, where Nick’s son Danny is a student, and the New York Child Learning Institute here in the States. This project is truly a labor of love for Hornby and the other writers involved, many of whom are Nick’s friends.
These original first-person narratives come from the most exciting voices in fiction. Melissa Bank gives readers a glimpse into the mind of a modern New Yorker whose still-new relationship is a constant source of surprise in “The Wonder Spot.” In Zadie Smith’s “I’m the Only One,” a young man recalls his strained relationship with his diva-esque sister. Dave Egger’s “After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned,” is told from the viewpoint of an unfortunate pit bull. Helen Fielding offers up a new twist on I’ve fallen and I can’t get up in “Luckybitch.” And in Nick Hornby’s “NippleJesus,” a bruiser finds out that guarding modern art is far more hazardous than controlling the velvet ropes at a nightclub. Speaking with the Angel also includes stories from Roddy Doyle, Irvine Welsh, Colin Firth, John O’Farrell, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, and Giles Smith.
Twelve completely new stories, written by twelve undeniably imaginative voices. Speaking with the Angel is at turns clever, outrageous, witty, edgy, tender, and wicked. This is what they meant by original.
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- Title Speaking with the Angel
- Author Nick Hornby (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Riverhead tr
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-02-01
- ISBN 9781573228589 / 1573228583
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.08 x 0.65 in (20.42 x 12.90 x 1.65 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, American, Short stories, English
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00051761
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- American Spectator, 05/01/2001, Page 102
- Booklist, 02/01/2001, Page 1041
- Entertainment Weekly, 02/09/2001, Page 70
- Library Journal, 02/01/2001, Page 126
- Mademoiselle, 03/01/2001, Page 32
- Men's Journal, 02/01/2001, Page 34
- New York Times, 03/04/2001, Page 23
- People Weekly, 04/09/2001, Page 59
- Publishers Weekly, 12/18/2000, Page 54
- Vogue, 03/01/2001, Page 390
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