Sudden Traveler, Sarah Hall
Sudden Traveler, Sarah Hall
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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


Synopsis

“Sarah Hall is one of those rare writers whose short fiction has the same luminosity as her novels. But the short form allows her more room to probe and roam, to experiment with form, to sink her fingers into the earth.”—The Observer (London)Featuring her signature themes of identity, eroticism, and existential quest, the stories in Sarah Hall’s third collection travel far afield in location and ambition—from Turkish forest and coastline to the rain-drenched villages of Cumbria.The characters in Sudden Traveler walk, drive, dream, and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journeys through life, death, and love. Science fiction meets folktale and philosophy meets mortality.A woman with a new generation of pacemaker chooses to shut it down in the Lakeland, the site of her strongest memories. A man repatriated in the near east hears the name of an old love called and must unpack history’s dark suitcase. From the new world-waves of female anger and resistance, a mythical creature evolves. And in the woods on the border between warring countries, an old well facilitates a dictator’s downfall, before he gains power.A master of short fiction, Sarah Hall opens channels in the human mind and spirit and takes us to the very edge of our possible selves.

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 Bruna on October 07, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Jo on January 22, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Marcus on October 02, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Mark on March 08, 2020

Another fine collection of short stories. They just keep rolling out.......more

Goodreads review by Joelle on February 14, 2023

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