商品簡介
Britain's finest short-story writer returns with a sparking new collection.
Cockfosters holds a mirror up to the way we live -- the old, comfortable friendships and small, slight connections we make with the people we pass. From the middle-aged school friends on an unplanned journey to the end of the Piccadilly Line to the recipe written to a daughter on the verge of adulthood, Helen Simpson writes with great warmth, wit and candour about the complexities of modern life.
Her previous collections have been compared to Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro, and Verticals and Horizontals is yet another masterpiece -- sly on gender, dazzling on love, and interwoven with the skill we have come to expect from one of our greatest authors.
作者簡介
HELEN SIMPSON is the author of the short-story collections Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000) andConstitutional (2005). In 1991 she was chosen as the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and won the Somerset Maugham Award. In 1993 she was chosen as one of Granta's twenty Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in London.
