This isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You

Resumen del libro

Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers. A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do. Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Jon McGregorx{0026}lt;/b (Bermudas, 1976) es autor de cuatro novelas: x{0026}lt;i Si nadie habla de las cosas que importanx{0026}lt;/i (2002, ganadora del premio Somerset Maugham), x{0026}lt;i Tantas maneras de empezarx{0026}lt;/i (2006), x{0026}lt;i Ni siquiera los perrosx{0026}lt;/i (2010, ganadora del premio IMPAC) y x{0026}lt;i El embalse 13x{0026}lt;/i (2017, ganadora del premio Costa), y de dos libros de cuentos: x{0026}lt;i This Isnx{0026} x02019;t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like Youx{0026}lt;/i (2012) y x{0026}lt;i The Reservoir Tapesx{0026}lt;/i (2017). Ha sido tres veces finalista del Man Booker, la primera vez con tan solo veintiséis años, y la última por x{0026}lt;i El embalse 13x{0026}lt;/i . Es profesor de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nottingham, en Inglaterra.x{0026}lt;/p