Everything You Need (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. L. Kennedy
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1971-1997
- Setting: Wales and London
- Principal Characters: Nathan Staples, Maura Lamb, Mary Lamb, Bryn Lamb, Cyril Morgan, Jack Dowd Grace
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, Parents and children, Suicide, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Guilt, 1980’s, England or English people, Fathers, Islands, London, 1990’s, Great Britain, Aging, Wales or Welsh people, Mass murderers or serial killers
- Locales: London, England, Wales
Much—arguably too much—has been made of A. L. Kennedy’s On Bullfighting (1999). This little book on what is, for Kennedy, an unusual a topic, begins with the author—who had been selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty “Best of the Young British Novelists” just six years earlier—brought to the brink of suicide by the death of a friend and the breakup of the relationship with “the love of her life.” Only “hear[ing] a man’s voice droning from a distance, cheaply amplified and criminally flat and singing what has always been my least favourite...
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