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Anna Burns
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018
‘Milkman is extraordinary. I’ve been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It’s frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time.’
Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571338757
Date Published
20.09.2018
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Summary
This beautiful and painful novel by Orange Prize shortlisted Anna Burns blends shades of early Edna O’Brien with Eimear McBride’s exquisite ability to capture voice.
‘Blazing.’Daily Telegraph
‘Outstanding.’New Statesman
‘A triumph.’Guardian
‘Utterly compelling.’Irish Times
‘The best Booker winner in years.’Metro
In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, ‘Milkman’. In this community, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible consequences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control . . .
Winner ofthe International Dublin Literary Award 2020andthe Man Booker Prize 2018
Shortlisted for theRathbones Folio Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction,andtheOrwell Prize for Political Fiction
Critic Reviews
A triumph of voice . . . darkly hilarious.
Justine Jordan, Guardian BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Critic Reviews
The narrator of Milkman disrupts the status quo not through being political, heroic or violently opposed, but because she is original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique: different. The same can be said of this book.
Claire Kilroy, Guardian
Critic Reviews
Anna Burns is part of a movement of new and established female Belfast writers... along with Lucy Caldwell, Roisín O’Donnell, Jan Carson and others . . . It is an impressive, wordy, often funny book and confirms Anna Burns as one of our rising literary stars.
Adrian McKinty, Irish Times
Critic Reviews
A darkly funny novel about Seventies Belfast that leaves words ominously unspoken.
Cal Revely-Calder, Daily Telegraph
Critic Reviews
Milkman is delivered in a breathless, hectic, glorious torrent. The pace doesn't let up for a single moment . . . A potent and urgent book, with more than a hint of barely contained fury.
Irish Independent
Critic Reviews
Profound, punchy, powerful prose... A tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness, it's thought-provoking stuff.
Sunday Telegraph, STELLA, Stella Loves
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Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of three novels –No Bones,Little Constructions andMilkman– and of the novellaMostly Hero.No Boneswon the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.Milkmanhas, to date, won the Man Booker Prize 2018, the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award…
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