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Kerry Hudson - Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

Av Kerry Hudson

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Winner of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award 2013, Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Sky Arts Awards, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, the Portsmouth First Fiction Award, the Green Carnation Prize and the Polari Prize ‘More than just one of the best debuts of the year; one of the best books of the year. It should do for Aberdeen what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh’ Louise Welsh, HeraldWhen Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.Ahead of her lies a life filled with feckless men, filthy council flats and bread & marge sandwiches.But Janie isn’t like the rest of them. She wants a different life.And Janie, born and bred for combat, is ready to fight for it.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-07-04
  • Mått: 129 x 197 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 192 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099554622
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award 2013 (UK)
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Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust First Book Award and was shortlisted for an array of prizes including the Guardian First Book Award and the Sky Arts Award. Thirst, her second novel, won the prestigious Prix Femina étranger. Lowborn, her highly acclaimed first work of non-fiction, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Guardian and Spectator Book of the Year and Stylist Book of the Decade. It is followed by Newborn. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.

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