Common People
An Anthology of Working-Class Writers
Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed.Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus stop, the waiter, the hairdresser. Here, Kit de Waal brings together thirty-three established and emerging writers who invite you to experience the world through their eyes, their voices loud and clear as they reclaim and redefine what it means to be working cl…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78352-747-2
- EAN: 9781783527472
- Produktnummer: 29544616
- Verlag: Unbound
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 654 KB
Über den Autor
Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and a Caribbean father. My Name is Leon, her debut novel, was an international bestseller and won Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2016. Her second novel, The Trick to Time, followed in April 2018. She established the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Scholarship at Birkbeck University to help improve working-class representation in the arts. She lives in London.
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