Yesterday's Weather
Includes Taking Pictures and Other Stories
$31.23
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2009
Summary
A landmark collection of short stories from Man Booker winner Anne Enright, reissued in a beautiful new series.
‘Shockingly beautiful and painfully funny’ Observer
A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger. A naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. A woman’s one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another’s thwarted by a swarm of somnolent bees…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099520993 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099520990 |
| Author: | Anne Enright |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Enright deals beautifully with the modern world … blood, guts, and heart-stopping beauty
One of the most accomplished Irish literary stylists of her generation. To read Anne Enright is to be enthralled and moved – Joseph O’ConnorEnthralling… Reckless intelligence, savage humour, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright’s fiction is jet dark - but how it glitters * New York Times Book Review *
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. 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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