Wood, Naomi. 2012. The Picador Book of 40. In: Charlotte Grieg, ed. The Picador Book of 40. London: Picador. ISBN 9781447219040 [Book Section]

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For Picador’s 40th anniversary we asked 40 writers to respond to the idea of 40 in whatever way they liked. The results are spectacular: thoughtful, funny, poignant, as brilliantly diverse as the Picador list.

Pieces include the temporal (what I was doing 40 years ago; the mid-life crisis of a 40-year-old whose lifespan coincides with Picador’s), the quirky (gifts I’d like to receive for my 40th birthday; 40 things to do before I die; what it’s like never to have been on any of those Best Under 40 lists), and the downright clever (40-word synopses of great works of literature), along with some astonishingly good short stories and poems touching on mortality and aging.

The authors range from great established writers on the list, like Alice Sebold, John Banville and Graham Swift, to new stars, such as Emma Straub, Belinda McKeon and Megan Abbott, and 33 more.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature > Centre for Caribbean Studies
Dates:	Date Event 2012 Published
Item ID:	17409
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2016 22:25
Last Modified:	01 Aug 2018 15:09
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/17409

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