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PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780230007574

RRP: £12.50

PAGES: 176

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 19, 2007

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A.L. Kennedy

Kaye Mitchell

Mitchell provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Kennedy’s work, placing her fiction and non-fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context. Its importance is considered in terms of contemporary Scottish identity and relevance to key issues in contemporary culture and theory. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, this guide offers an accessible reading of Kennedy’s short stories, novels, poetry, non-fiction and screenplays and an overview of the reception this has provoked.

Kaye Mitchell

KAYE MITCHELL is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester, UK.

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