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The Blue
Author(s): Maggie Gee (Author)
- Publisher: Telegram Books
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 212 pages
- ISBN-10: 1846590132
- ISBN-13: 9781846590139
Book Description
The people in The Blue, Maggie Gee s first collection of short stories, try and often fail to understand the world, freeing themselves by small acts of courage, love or folly. A journalist decides to convert an evangelist in mid-air; a solicitor gives up his day job to help young artists; a Middle Eastern woman shocks her children as she walks through the heat towards the sea; a man, in a moment of madness, cuts down his neighbour s tree.
These subtle fables of everyday life are set against an intricate global backdrop where life is harder for outsiders. Exquisitely written and aerated by comedy, they show human beings who struggle to live good lives.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Her writing is clear as glass and has marvellous rhythm, fluency and grace. Observer
spell. —Mslexia Magazine
Impressive, captivating and highly recommended. —
Scotland on SundayMaggie Gee is a superb and pitiless analyser of middle-class angst.
The TimesMaggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists. —
Sunday TimesOriginal and courageous. —
Doris LessingUnited by Gee’s ability to delineate personalities and adopt
voices with small but accurate touches. … Light sketches, filled with
colour. —
Deceptive stylistic simplicity and plain dialogue, complicated
emotions are revealed in
spell. —Mslexia Magazine
About the Author
Maggie Gee is the author of eleven acclaimed novels, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes), My Cleaner and My Driver, and a memoir, My Animal Life. She is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Maggie Gee was awarded an OBE in 2012 for her services to literature. She lives in London.
