Fourteen Days (Hardback)
  • Fourteen Days (Hardback)
  • Fourteen Days (Hardback)
  • Fourteen Days (Hardback)
  • Fourteen Days (Hardback)
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Fourteen Days (Hardback)

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Hardback 384 Pages
Published: 06/02/2024
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Waterstones Says

A breathtaking feat of literary collaboration, Fourteen Days is a spellbinding, Decameronesque novel set in an Lower East Side apartment building at the beginning of the pandemic, with each of its characters written by a different author from a star-studded cast of contributors including Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng.

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the pandemic, Fourteen Days is a dazzling, heartwarming novel with an unusual twist: each character has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng.

One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants - some of whom have barely spoken to each other - become real neighbours.

In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas Preston, and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn't get away from the city when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming collection, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784745455
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 600 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 35 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

An immensely enjoyable product of an immensely unenjoyable time, Fourteen Days is lively, freewheeling and…an impressive achievement - Observer

Fourteen Days serves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners) - Financial Times

We like a bit of fun with our fiction, of the sort you get with Fourteen Days, a new collaborative novel set in a New York tenement in the early days of the pandemic in which a crew of acclaimed writers — including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Emma Donoghue — each tell a different character’s story. - The Times

A rather intriguing puzzle box of a book… enjoyable, and has a dip-into-able quality - Scotland on Sunday

If you want to feel well read in double-quick time, try Fourteen Days, which is set in a New York city tenement in the early days of the pandemic. It has a novel twist (pardon the pun) - each character has been secretly written by a different author from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Dave Eggers and Celeste Ng - BBC

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“Loved it!”

Bringing writers together onto one project to tell new and fresh stories is always something I enjoy. Seeing a comfortable atmosphere of strangers being brought together in the height of Covid lockdown, to talk and... More

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“Tales From Before And During”

This was a really odd one, as with most short stories collections, there’s a couple of stories that aren’t for me. But the overall story arc, the characters and the concept is brilliant and really interesting.
It is... More

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“Beautifully interwoven short stories”

This is a collection of short stories but they are not random or separate. They are written by some of the most significant authors of our time who were all brought together during the COVID-19 pandemic to contribute.... More

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