Madame Zero, Sarah Hall
Madame Zero, Sarah Hall
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Madame Zero
9 Stories

Author: Sarah Hall

Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown

Unabridged: 4 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/25/2017


Synopsis

From one of the most accomplished British writers working today, the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Wolf Border, comes a unique and arresting collection of short fiction that is both disturbing and dazzling.Sarah Hall has been hailed as ""one of the most significant and exciting of Britain’s young novelists"" (The Guardian), a writer whose ""intelligence and ambition are thrilling to behold"" (BookForum). Her work has been acclaimed as ""amazing . . . terrific and original"" (Washington Post). In this collection of nine works of short fiction, she uses her piercing insight to plumb the depth of the female experience and the human soul.A husband’s wife transforms into a vulpine in ""Mrs. Fox,"" winner of the BBC Short Story Prize. In ""Case Study 2, "" A social worker struggles with a foster child raised in a commune. A new mother runs into an old lover in ""Luxury Hour."" In incandescent prose, full of rich observations and striking clarity, Hall has composed nine wholly original pieces—works of fiction that will resonate long after the final word is heard.

About Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. She is the prizewinning author of six novels and three short story collections. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, among others, and the only person ever to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on January 14, 2018

This is my first encounter with Sarah Hall and it left me wondering why I had taken so long. In an unsettling collection of tales all centred around some kind of transformation, this gifted author puts her dark imagination and considerable writing talents to wonderful use. Convention tells us in whic......more

Goodreads review by Magdalith on February 22, 2020

Zmysłowe, niepokojące, bardzo klimatyczne opowiadania. "Apokaliptyczne" - napisał ktoś w jakiejś recenzji, i ja się z tym określeniem zgadzam. Jest w tych tekstach wszystko to, czego się boimy, ale nie chodzi o duchy i strzygi, ale o upiory dnia powszedniego. Że on odejdzie, że ona umrze, że ukochan......more

Goodreads review by Lark on January 30, 2019

These stories are obliquely told. Voice or mood is more important than narrative. They often don't tell much of a 'story' at all. Nevertheless these 'stories' are fully formed. They aren't fragments. They aren't even 'experimental' in the sense that the term is usually used. They left me changed for......more