The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
$61.72
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2015
Summary
‘Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive’ Sunday Times
‘Entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream’ GuardianThe second novel by the author of The Lonely Hearts HotelLonglisted for the Baileys Prize 2015At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken.At six, she’s the child star daughter of Quebec’s most famous musician.At sixteen, she’s a high-school dropou…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784290160 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784290165 |
| Author: | Heather O'Neill |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 130mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
‘An exuberantly written coming-of-age story … Flashbulb-bright and memorable … Nicolas
and Nouschka are the beautiful, frozen, fetishised symbols of separatist Quebec. As they try towrench themselves into being, their story is as entrancing and antic and sensual as a dream’ - Guardian‘Delightfully bizarre …The author stuns with the vivid descriptions and metaphors that arestudded throughout the book’ - Kirkus‘O’Neill’s voice is singular, brave, magical, and bursting with stark beauty’ - Lisa Moore, author of FebruaryHeather O'Neill
Heather O’Neill is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and essayist. Lullabies for Little Criminals, her debut novel, was published in 2007 to international critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, The Girl who was Saturday Night, was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the Giller Prize, as was her collection of short stories, Daydreams of Angels. Her third novel, The Lonely Hearts Hotel was longlisted for the Baileys prize. Born and raised in Montreal, O’Neill lives there today with her daughter.
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