Getting a Life (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Helen Simpson
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: 1999-2000
- Setting: England, mostly London and its suburbs
- Principal Characters: Jade, Nicola, Dorrie, Max, Cassie
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Teenagers, Twentieth century, England or English people, Women’s issues, London, Disasters, 1990’s, Airplanes or jets, Career women, Babysitting or babysitters, 2000’s
- Locales: London, England
Helen Simpson is a master stylist who can elevate seemingly commonplace situations into vivid commentaries on the contemporary life around her. Her portraits of young women, career women, and especially married women with families are realistically evoked and resonate far beyond the individual characters. She has no need to preach; the sharp details of her protagonists, their intimate thoughts, and their dialogues with those around them create and convey their own reality and meaning.
Getting a Life, when first published in England, was titled Hey Yeah Right Get a...
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