Rupert Everett's first collection of stories, The American No, is a brilliantly witty, funny, and tender exploration of love, loss, drama, and glamour. It features eight stories that draw on Everett's wealth of film and TV ideas, and has received critical acclaim from various publications. Everett is known for his wit, perceptive writing, and sensitivity, and his stories are both moving and tender, often outrageous, and funny.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Rupert Everett's "The American No" is a Brilliant Collection of Stories

Everett is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical. Rachel Cooke, Observer

Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive. Camilla Long, The Times

Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller. Hadley Freeman, Sunday Times

Eight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers. Everett's first, glorious collection of stories takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters. A blackly humorous story of a chaotic and emotional funeral in Paris. Oscar Wilde's last night in Paris, vividly evocative, unflinching and elegiac. A Russian-American countess who confronts sex and age in a Wiltshire teashop. The ferociously unforgiving life of an L.A. talent agency and the unexpected twist that launches a completely different kind of career. The deathbed confession of a woman who left home for 1850s India, never to return. A story of emigration, love and grief. And a beautifully evocative and touching portrayal of Proust's creative life and his childhood. Everett's writing is incredibly good. His stories are both moving and tender, often outrageous, and funny too. A gifted storyteller. Santa Montefiore

Weight: 556g
Dimension: 241 x 162 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408714195