Full name: The Beautiful Indifference: Stories

Author: Sarah Hall Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062208453 9781536640052 0062208454 1536640050

From Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Sarah Hall comes a collection of unique and disturbing short fiction hailed as a sensation by UK reviewers The serenity of a Finnish lake turns sinister when a woman's lover does not come back from his swim . . . A bored London housewife discovers a secret erotic club . . . A shy, bookish girl develops an unlikely friendship with the schoolyard bully and her wild, horsey family . . . After fighting with her boyfriend, a woman goes for a night walk on a remote tropical beach with dark, unexpected consequences. Sarah Hall has been hailed as "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" (The Guardian). Now, in this collection of seven pieces of short fiction, published in England to phenomenal praise, she is at her best: seven pieces of uniquely talented prose telling stories as wholly absorbing as they are ambitious and accessible. Similar books: Short Short Stories by Dave Eggers Throw Like A Girl by Jean Thompson The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson Married Love by Tessa Hadley The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce Bark by Lorrie Moore In the Loyal Mountains by Rick Bass The First Person by Ali Smith Men Giving Money, Women Yelling by Alice Mattison Trajectory by Richard Russo Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser Drown by Junot Diaz Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Open Secrets by Alice Munro The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers