A01=Anne Donovan
Ali Smith
Author_Anne Donovan
Carol Anne Davies
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Divided City
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female Scottish author
Glaswegian author
Jackie Kay
Janice Galloway
Liz Lochhead
Louise Welsh
Roddy Doyle
Theresa Breslin
uplifting stories
vibrant voice
Product details
- ISBN 9781841955193
- Weight: 123g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2004
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'.
Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety.
Anne Donovan is the author of Being Emily and the prize-winning novel Buddha Da. Buddha Da was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It received a Scottish Arts Council Award and won the Le Prince Maurice Award in Mauritius in 2004.
