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What Becomes
  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409079095
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

What Becomes

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'What Becomes marshals all the qualities of her justly praised writing: unflinching insight, clear and spacious prose, a narrative voice that bounces between grave compassion and bantering wickedness and plenty of black comedy' - Daily Telegraph

A.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable.

She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human compassion and leaps of black humour.

From the winner of the Costa Book Award for Day.
  • Published: 1 October 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409079095
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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A.L. Kennedy

A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.
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