Speaking with the Angel is a collection of
short stories told in
first-person narrative. Edited by
Nick Hornby (of
High Fidelity and
Fever Pitch fame), contributors to the collection are (according to the back cover at least) 12 of the most
celebrated voices in
fiction today. They are also mostly
British, except for Melissa Bank and Dave Eggers who are American.
A
portion of the proceeds from the sale of book goes to
TreeHouse, a school for
autistic children where Hornby’s son is a student.
Stories in the Collection
One has to wonder how Colin Firth ended up writing a story for the book, but oddly enough he starred in the film adaptations of Hornby’s
Fever Pitch and Fielding’s
Bridget Jone’s Diary.