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  They conceal tenderness and disappointment, vulnerability and longing, griefs and wonders - and, with each of them, Kennedy finds and opens up that extraordinary emotional wound, that insight into their experiences: like the woman in 'Saturday Teatime' who tries to relax in a flotation tank, before her memories hijack her, taking her back to last weekend's party - to a boy with a hamster, and his lecherous father - and then further back to another Saturday, when she was nine years old, when the troubling of her life began.
  
  A.L. Kennedy's fifth remarkable collection of short stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption of love - and she does so with the enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and the brilliantly original linguistic skill that distinguishes her as one of Britain's finest writers.
  
  The author of five previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and three collections of short stories, A.L. Kennedy's most recent book, Day, was the Costa Book of the Year. She has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won many prizes including the Lannan Literary Award, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.

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  Alison Louise Kennedy is an award-winning writer and, more recently, a stand-up comedian.
  
  She was born in Dundee in October 1965 and educated at Dundee High School and the University of Warwick where she gained a degree in Theatre Studies and Drama.
  
  Her first short-story collection, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (published in 1990) won the Scottish Arts Council Book Award, Saltire Best First Book Award, and The Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
  
  Her second short-story collection, Looking for the Possible Dance, won the Somerset Maugham award. She has also written five novels and two books of non-fiction, and has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, for the first time in 1993, then in 2003.
  
  She has won several other awards, most recently the 2007 Costa Book of the Year Award for Day and has been a judge for both the Booker and Orange prizes.
  
  Alison has been a parttime lecturer in creative writing at the University of St Andrews and is now Associate Professor with Warwick University's Creative Writing Programme. She also writes for stage, radio, film and television.
  
  She had a successful stand-up comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year and she continues to tour. When she is not travelling, she lives in Glasgow.

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  Novelist and short-story writer A(lison) L(ouise) Kennedy was born in Dundee, Scotland on 22 October 1965.She studied English and Drama at Warwick University where she began writing dramatic monologues and short stories.She was Writer in Residence for Hamilton and East Kilbride Social Work Department and won the 1990 Social Work Today Award.
  
  She has worked for the arts and special needs charity Project Ability since 1989, first as Writer in Residence (1989-95), then as editor of Outside Lines magazine, and has been a member of the Management Committee since 1998.She was editor of New Writing Scotland (1993-5) and was Writer in Residence at Copenhagen University in 1995.She reviews for The Scotsman, the Glasgow Herald and the Daily Telegraph, is a contributor to the Guardian, and has been a judge for both the Booker Prize for Fiction (1996) and The Guardian First Book Award (2001).She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2000.
  
  Her first book, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (1990), a bleak collection of short stories set in Scotland, won several awards including the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award.In 1993 she was named as one of Granta magazine's 20 'Best of Young British Novelists 2'.
  
  Other short story collections include Now That You're Back (1994) and Original Bliss (1997), and her novels include: Looking for the Possible Dance (1993), which centres on a young Scottish woman's relationships with her father, her lover and her employer; So I Am Glad (1995), winner of the Encore Award, which focuses on the trauma of child sexual abuse and its consequences in adulthood; and Everything You Need (1999), the story of a middle-aged writer living on a remote island and his attempt to build a relationship with his estranged daughter.
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  When looking across the spectrum of A.L. Kennedy's writing, versatility and lucidity are her apparent trademarks.Her novels have encompassed subjects such as the alcoholic woman, the suicidal writer and a Lancaster bomber tail-gunner left over from Second World War and in her non-fiction, bull fighting has been another area of interest.The style of her fiction and non-fiction never fails to be compelling and is also often unbearably perceptive.
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  Although Kennedy is complimented by Ursula Le Guin for her ‘narrative gift', Le Guin then goes on to argue that this use of the second person is not effective: ‘Telling a story aloud, we may all slip into the second person, in the present tense, as a ploy to include the listener.
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  This is underlined in chapter one as Kennedy explains her own suicidal impulse ‘by way of a preamble' and tells of her decision to step down (rather than jump to her death).She promises honesty and reveals that she has no prior interest or enthusiasm for this subject: ‘I was simply asked if I would write this and I simply agreed.'
  
  She wanted to see if she was still capable of writing and ‘to discover if the elements which seemed so much a part of the corrida - death, transcendence, immortality, joy, pain, isolation and fear - would come back to me. Because they were part of the process of writing and, good and bad, I miss them.' Her output following this book demonstrates that these themes and emotions have, fortunately, returned with a vengeance.

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  Alison Kennedy, novelist and comedian, wins the , Costa Book of the Year Award. .

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  "Day: A Nove" by A. L. Kennedy, Knopf, Hardcover, 2008, 288 pages, $24
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  It is within such a parenthesis , the action and aftermath of WWII , that Scottish writer, A. L. Kennedy, settles her newest novel, Day.
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  Kennedy blindly immerses readers into the narrative with little, if any, clues for place or time.
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  As the reader gropes for context, Kennedy complicates things further by employing a second-person narrative.
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  Because the reader is inside his thoughts, it's clearly not necessary for Kennedy to provide a full-bodied background for him.Thus, Alfie never quite takes complete form, which leads to little, if any, emotional connection to him.When Alfie, early on, reveals that he decided to kill his abusive father, the revelation falls flat because, for him, the deed is already done.And then, when the act finally takes place (in Alfie's memory), it's with a sense of dull detachment.He's simply hurling bricks at his drunk father in a slow-motion, dream-like fashion that's more lackluster than artistic.
  
  Alfred lacks shape, definition, or even a reason for being.In fact, it's not his present life, but his flashbacks, which are the most vibrant part of the novel.Although the other characters seem, even more so than Alfie, like cardboard caricatures, Kennedy succeeds at least in hinting at a parade of personalities.Her crowning accomplishment is that she effortlessly conveys daily life for 1940s RAF airmen as if she's writing from experience.In addition, the dialogue and interaction between the flight crew, for the most part, is superbly done.

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  A. L. Kennedy was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1965 and lives in Glasgow.Her books include three collections of stories, six novels, and two works of nonfiction.Since the publication of her first collection of short fiction, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (1991), Kennedy has been acclaimed for her innovative voice.Other titles include So I Am Glad (1995), Everything You Need (1999), Indelible Acts: Stories (2004), and Paradise (2005).Her latest novel, Day (2007), is set during and after World War II.She has received many literary prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award, and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.Kennedy has been a long-time columnist for The Guardian newspaper, a judge for the Booker and Orange Prizes, a journalist and reviewer, and a university lecturer.Of fiction she has said, "It is the form that proves most deeply that other human beings are as human as we are."

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  Here's part of her bio from Wikipedia: Alison Louise Kennedy (born October 22, 1965 in Dundee) is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work as well as a passion for the art of yodeling.

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  A.L. KENNEDY has published four previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and three collections of short stories, most recently INDELIBLE ACTS. She has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at St Andrews.

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  A.L. Kennedy has won many awards for her collections of short stories, novels and non-fiction.She has a column in The Guardian and also writes for the stage, radio, film and television.
  
  She will be reading from her new book Day, a superbly realised novel about the brutal simplicities of war and a moving exploration of the complexities of human emotion.

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  A. L. Kennedy is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work.Alison Kennedy lives in Glasgow.She occasionally contributes columns and reviews to UK and European newspapers and writes essays for BBC radio.A.L.Kennedy is currently an Associate Professor in Creative Writing with Warwick University, having previously taught creative writing at St Andrews University.
  
  Kennedy performs as a stand-up comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe, comedy clubs and literary festivals.She is principally associated with The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh.In 2007, she won a Lannan Literary Award, was awarded an honorary DLitt degree from the University of Glasgow, and her novel of that year Day was named Costa Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards.
  
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