(Ebook) So I Am Glad by A. L. Kennedy ISBN 9781446401910, 144640191X, B004C055MM

(Ebook) So I Am Glad by A. L. Kennedy ISBN 9781446401910, 144640191X, B004C055MM

The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and original as this marvellous book in which they come to life."Outstanding... A virtuoso performance brilliantly balancing insight and agony."  -  Irish TimesJennifer M. Wilson is a mid-thirties radio announcer living in Glasgow. A professional enunciator, an announcer, and a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of words. She shares a house with Art and Liz, two typical Scotland thirtysomethings, but her life takes a drastic turn with the arrival of her new housemate, an elusive man who glows in the dark and can't remember his name. He soon reveals himself to be none other than Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, the famed writer and duelist of eighteenth-century France, and what unfolds is a love story stark and surreal, tender and humane."The clarity, wit and description of her style are uplifting... A writer in her thirties, who is becoming one of Britain's best."  -  The TimesAn 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.