Milkman

Name: Milkman
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Anna Burns
ISBN: 9781666575026

Author: Anna Burns

Narrator: Brid Brennan

Unabridged: 14 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 12/04/2018

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Psychological

Synopsis

In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes interesting—the last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed, and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is a story of inaction with enormous consequences.

About Anna Burns

Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in East Sussex, England.

About Brid Brennan

Bríd Brennan is a Northern Irish actress of film, stage, and television, best known for her theatre work. She originated the role of Agnes in critically acclaimed performances of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, for which she won a Tony Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on September 09, 2023

This book won the Man Booker Prize in 2018. Its fame comes from the distinctive 'Voice of Middle Sister.' So it’s a 'voice' book that makes me think of others: the Scottish brogue of Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington or The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus. The book ha......more

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on September 26, 2023

Now deserved winner of the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award (one which acts as a kind of after publication year “best of” award - this year pitting in the shortlist winners of the Booker, Women’s Prize, Giller, NBA and Nobel). PREVIOUS a COMMENT One year on from its win and this book’s sales......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 16, 2018

Man Booker 2018 WINNER! So well deserved; congrats, Anna Burns! I loved Milkman, but it's so painfully niche I can't think of anyone I'd personally recommend it to. Set in an unnamed city that's probably Belfast in the 1970s, Milkman follows an unnamed narrator who's believed by her community to......more

Goodreads review by emma on August 08, 2024

don't mind me, just deciding to read award winners years after anyone last talked about them. this was very experimental and clever and interesting and yet somehow almost never a very compelling read to me. i just...never really looked forward to picking this one up. while i was impressed by it, i di......more

Goodreads review by Violet on March 01, 2019

Many writers strive for a fresh vibrant distinctive voice; few achieve it as well as Anna Burns does in this novel. It was fitting that I read this while reading Toni Morrison's Beloved because both novels have a fresh and innovative female voice at the helm and both very cleverly and subtly bring h......more