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So I Am Glad

AL Kennedy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:28th Mar '96

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'Kennedy is an exceptional writer... So I Am Glad is her best book.' Observer

Until reality breaks in and Jennifer uncovers the harsh vocabulary of addiction and the addictive extremes of sex. -An alchemical romance, a Swiftian satire for our times, an impossible spiritual journey and a devastating plummet into insanity and perversion, So I Am Glad is oblique, incisive, hilarious and horrific.Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice. A professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of words. Behind the sound-proof double doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences of hate and love. Until reality breaks in and Jennifer uncovers the harsh vocabulary of addiction and the addictive extremes of sex. -An alchemical romance, a Swiftian satire for our times, an impossible spiritual journey and a devastating plummet into insanity and perversion, So I Am Glad is oblique, incisive, hilarious and horrific.

A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation * Sunday Telegraph *
This woman is a profound writer -- Richard Ford
Kennedy is an exceptional writer... So I Am Glad is her best book * Observer *
The clarity, wit and description of her style are uplifting... A writer in her thirties, who is becoming one of Britain's best * The Times *
Outstanding... A virtuoso performance brilliantly balancing insight and agony * Irish Times *

  • Winner of Encore Award 1996
  • Winner of Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1995
  • Winner of Saltire Literary Award 1995

ISBN: 9780099457213

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm

Weight: 202g

288 pages