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Milkman: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

Hardback

Main Details

Title Milkman: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anna Burns
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 225,Width 146
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571355075
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
General
Edition Main - Liberty Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 5 September 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Liberty fabric covered editions bring classics from the Faber backlist together with important modern titles, putting them in conversation and celebrating both the history and the future of Faber & Faber. In 2019, Milkman, winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize, will be reissued with a bespoke Liberty fabric cover, created uniquely for Anna Burns; Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar will be reissued as a hardback featuring a Liberty fabric from the year of the novel's first publication (1963). In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.

Author Biography

Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella, Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in East Sussex, England.