Babies
vintage minis
$18.81
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2017
Summary
The Wonder of Babies: An Unsentimental Look at New Life
Babies—our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment, and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night.
Everyone, from parents to the mildly curious, can delight in Enright’s funny, eloquent, and u…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872588 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178487258X |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
| Author: | Anne Enright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 67g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 111mm x 7mm |
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Fizzingly entertaining. Reading it is like having a conversation with your funniest friend. Enright has pulled off that rarest of tricks: writing brilliantly about happiness
Fizzingly entertaining. Reading it is like having a conversation with your funniest friend. Enright has pulled off that rarest of tricks: writing brilliantly about happiness * Sunday Times *Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book. * Stylist *
About The Author
Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gais Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Fiction, and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
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