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Everything You Need

A Novel

A Novel

By A. L. Kennedy

By A. L. Kennedy

By A. L. Kennedy

By A. L. Kennedy

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $17.95

Jul 09, 2002 | ISBN 9780375707476

Ebook $9.99

Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307425799

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    About Everything You Need

    From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt for humanity is surpassed only by his corrosive self-loathing. Along with five equally dysfunctional colleagues Nathan lives on an island retreat off the coast of Wales, where he yearns for the daughter he lost years before. Now, in defiance of all his hopes, Mary Lamb–herself an aspiring writer–is about to join him as the seventh member of the colony.

    As Nathan tortuously wins the trust of the child who has no inkling of their true relationship, Mary comes to a gradual understanding of her gift. In Everything You Need, A. L. Kennedy combines the mythic resonance of Arthurian legend with a sensibility as lyrical as it is profane.

    About Everything You Need

    From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt for humanity is surpassed only by his corrosive self-loathing. Along with five equally dysfunctional colleagues Nathan lives on an island retreat off the coast of Wales, where he yearns for the daughter he lost years before. Now, in defiance of all his hopes, Mary Lamb–herself an aspiring writer–is about to join him as the seventh member of the colony.

    As Nathan tortuously wins the trust of the child who has no inkling of their true relationship, Mary comes to a gradual understanding of her gift. In Everything You Need, A. L. Kennedy combines the mythic resonance of Arthurian legend with a sensibility as lyrical as it is profane.

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    About A. L. Kennedy

    A. L. Kennedy has published six novels, two books of nonfiction, and three previous collections of short stories. She has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes, including the Costa… More about A. L. Kennedy

    About A. L. Kennedy

    A. L. Kennedy has published six novels, two books of nonfiction, and three previous collections of short stories. She has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes, including the Costa… More about A. L. Kennedy

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 09, 2002 | 560 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375707476

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 18, 2007 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780307425799

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    Praise

    “Gorgeous and visceral . . . profound, tender . . . [Kennedy’s] most accomplished work to date.” —The Wall Street Journal

    “Kennedy is as disconcertingly accurate at tenderness as at wildness. . . . A passionate writer, on the edge and at risk.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “A virtuoso of prose. Her phrasing is fine-tuned and supple to the highest degree: intuitive and subtle about the multifarious sensations of being alive.” –London Review of Books

    “To read Kennedy is to be captivated by an elegant, idiosyncratic intelligence at work.” —Elle

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