Babies
Vintage Minis
$19.20
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
29 May 2017
Summary
Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.
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 par…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872588 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178487258X |
| Author: | Anne Enright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 68g |
| Dimensions: | 177mm x 110mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
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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 eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize.
Her other awards include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature, and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters.
In 2015, she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently, she won the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
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