

Sudden Traveler
Stories
Author: Sarah Hall
Narrator: Mary Jane Wells
Unabridged: 3 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 10/08/2019
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Author: Sarah Hall
Narrator: Mary Jane Wells
Unabridged: 3 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 10/08/2019
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fantasy
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.
I’m an avid reader but it has never taken me so long to read such a small book. I gave it a second and third chance; I even tried starting all over. I was determined to get into this book but unfortunately it just wasn’t for me. The word that defines this book the most for me is: confusing. This boo......more
There are several recurring themes in the seven stories that make up Sarah Hall’s latest short story collection. These include death whether natural or otherwise, female oppression and its consequences, migration, and loss, either of self or of others. Other than these shared themes though these sto......more
There are seven short stories in this collection from 2019. The voices of the narrators stand out for me, the vivid pictures that are drawn and the language that is used. Not unusual words, but thought provoking ones, ones that can stop you in your tracks, unfamiliar in the sense of the way that the......more
Another fine collection of short stories. They just keep rolling out.......more
Sudden Traveler is a collection of seven short stories by award-winning Sarah Hall, whose short fiction has been justly described as luminous and erotic. This small sampler demonstrates her flexibility with styles and subjects that vary from the deeply moving and accessible to the more obscure and e......more