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Cockfosters
Helen Simpson
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Description for Cockfosters
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Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and renewal found in long friendships and marriages. It opens irresistible new windows onto the world from Arizona to Dubai and from Moscow to Berlin. Turning both a panoramic and a zoom lens on the way we live now, these stories range through hitch-hiking in Bohemian forest-land to cresting the waves of the Aegean to the mending of hearts and the recovery of lost property at the end of the Piccadilly Line. Helen Simpson writes ... Read more
Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and renewal found in long friendships and marriages. It opens irresistible new windows onto the world from Arizona to Dubai and from Moscow to Berlin. Turning both a panoramic and a zoom lens on the way we live now, these stories range through hitch-hiking in Bohemian forest-land to cresting the waves of the Aegean to the mending of hearts and the recovery of lost property at the end of the Piccadilly Line. Helen Simpson writes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784701987
SKU
V9781784701987
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Ref
99-2
About Helen Simpson
Helen Simpson's sixth short-story collection, Cockfosters, follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005) and In-Flight Entertainment (2010). A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, ... Read more
Reviews for Cockfosters
This collection is a joy
Bookseller
Helen Simpson is a vital (and pleasurable) voice
Melanie White
Independent on Sunday
These uplifting and sensitive tales act like a guide to `the next phase' - whatever that may bring.
Imogen Lycett Green
Daily Mail
Cockfosters is elegant, sane, ... Read more
Bookseller
Helen Simpson is a vital (and pleasurable) voice
Melanie White
Independent on Sunday
These uplifting and sensitive tales act like a guide to `the next phase' - whatever that may bring.
Imogen Lycett Green
Daily Mail
Cockfosters is elegant, sane, ... Read more