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From Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Sarah Hall comes a collection of unique and disturbing short fiction hailed as a sensation by UK reviewers
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- Harper Perennial
- Carton Qty: 68
- Selling Territory: USOM
- 50,000
- Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Conville & Walsh Ltd.
- On Sale: 1/29/2013
- FICTION
- pb 9780062208453 $14.99 (NCR)
- 208 pages; 5 5/16 x 8
- Model ISBN: 9780061430459
How to Paint a Dead Man
- The Beautiful Inddiference has been short-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.
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"Reaches a standard that makes award juries sit up and take note."
- Lionel Shriver, Financial Times
“Every one of the seven tales here delights and disturbs in equal measure. The Beautiful Indifference illustrates that short fiction is indeed a finely wrought art form, and Hall is an artist of considerable and concise skill. Each story is a gem, but together they from a collection of astonishingly sensuous power.”
- Sunday Times (London)
"Shows her characteristic ability to cause disquiet ... Hall's sharply perceptive observations strike like slaps ... These are stimulating, unsettling stories."
- The Independent on Sunday
‘With her first short-story collection, [Hall’s] writing takes another leap forward, into a landscape entirely her own....The erotic charge of Hall’s writing, its fierce physical power, coexists with her characters’ sense of separation: each is a world entire, and they retain their depth, their mystery.”
- The Guardian
“These stories constantly thwart one’s dramatic expectations—and are all the more dramatic for it ... This prose, particularly when used to convey the bleakness of the Cumbrian landscape, is wonderful ... She does darkness so very well.”
- The Times (London)
"Individually stunning, together these stories comprise a tour-de-force collection that has reignited my love of the form."
- S.J. Watson
"Luscious short stories from uber-talented Cumbrian writer Sarah Hall, all told in ravishing prose."
- Metro
“The Beautiful Indifference illustrates that short fiction is indeed a finely wrought art form, and Hall is an artist of considerable and concise skill. Each story is a gem, but together they from a collection of astonishingly sensuous power.”
- Sunday Times (London)