Hieroglyphics And Other Stories
By Anne Donovan
2001
First Published
3.73
Average Rating
170
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A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'. Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety.
Avg Rating
3.73
Number of Ratings
183
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Author
Anne Donovan
Author · 5 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Anne Donovan’s prize-winning short stories have been published in various anthologies and broadcast on BBC radio. Her collection Hieroglyphics and Other Stories came out in 2001. 2003 saw the release of her debut novel Buddha Da, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize; both books published by Canongate Books. A resident of Glasgow, Scotland, Donovan often employs the local, working-class dialect in her writing; as she says, it provides "a more direct line to the heart, you get closer."
