Yesterday's Weather: Stories

Anne Enright

jun 2009 · Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, and the Washington Post Book World.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering and Actress, this is a collection of sharp, unpredictable short fiction about people struggling to connect in an increasingly disconnected world.

Yesterday’s Weather shows us a rapidly changing Ireland, a land of family and tradition, but also, increasingly, of organic radicchio, cruise-ship vacations, and casual betrayals. An artisan farmer seethes at the patronage of a former Catholic-school classmate, now a successful restaurateur; a bride cheats on her rich husband with an old college friend—a madman who refuses his pills, disappears for weeks on end, and plays the piano like a dream. These and other stories make up a volume that is “astonishing: moving, emotionally accurate, sly, and laugh-out-loud funny” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

“A dazzling collection.” —Time Out

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Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962. She has received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and has been a Writer Fellow at Trinity College. She is also the author of the Grove Press titles What Are You Like? and The Wig My Father Wore. Her work has been anthologized in the Penguin Book of Irish Fiction.