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Author | : David Constantine |
Publisher | : Comma Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2013-11-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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**WINNER of the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award** **WINNER of the BBC National Short Story Prize** 'The excellence of the collection is fractal: the whole book is excellent, and every story is excellent, and every paragraph is excellent, and every sentence is excellent. And, unlike some literary fiction, it's effortless to read.' - The Independent on Sunday ‘Perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form.’ – The Reader To the woman watching they looked like grace itself, the heart and soul of which is freedom. It pleased her particularly that they were attached by invisible strings to colourful curves of rapidly moving air. How clean and clever that was! You throw up something like a handkerchief, you tether it and by its headlong wish to fly away, you are towed along... Like the kite-surfers in this opening scene, the characters in David Constantine’s fourth collection are often delicately caught in moments of defiance. Disregarding their age, their family, or the prevailing political winds, they show us a way of marking out a space for resistance and taking an honest delight in it. Witness Alphonse – having broken out of an old people’s home, changed his name, and fled the country – now pedalling down the length of the Rhône, despite knowing he has barely six months to live. Or the clergyman who chooses to spend Christmas Eve – and the last few hours in his job – in a frozen, derelict school, dancing a wild jig with a vagrant called Goat. Key to these characters’ defiance is the power of fiction, the act of holding real life at arm’s length and simply telling a story – be it of the future they might claim for themselves, or the imagined lives of others. Like them, Constantine’s bewitching, finely-wrought stories give us permission to escape, they allow us to side-step the inexorable traffic of our lives, and beseech us to take possession of the moment.
Author | : Dinesh Allirajah |
Publisher | : Comma Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Before his untimely death at the age of 47, Dinesh Allirajah was one of the most versatile and accomplished writers working in the North of England. Whether as a performance poet, literary critic, wry social commentator or masterfully understated short story writer, his work was always international in scope, but local and personal in touch. Witty, irreverent, and intricately observed, his writing was informed by everything from raregroove jazz to experimental theatre, crime noir to stand-up comedy. Yet it always felt, and continues to feel, bespoke to us as readers. The short stories, in particular, allow us to eavesdrop on the most intimate, unattended moments in their characters’ lives. Here, we get to know outsiders – migrant workers, beleaguered mothers, old and unwanted regulars in a pub that’s facing a refurb – people being slowly ushered into the background, or kept at a distance. Yet it is on these peripheries – far from where everyone else is looking – that Dinesh finds his stories, here that identities are reconstructed and renegotiated, here that we learn the most about ourselves. Spanning over twenty years’ work, this definitive hardback volume presents a through-line of Dinesh’s compassion, activism, and literary perspicacity; a clarion call to find essential beauty - in art, music, sport, life - and to pass it on.
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Total Pages | : 1278 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Commerce |
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Total Pages | : 1388 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Pennsylvania. Bureau of Foods |
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Total Pages | : 1238 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Food adulteration |
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Author | : Pennsylvania. Dept. of Agriculture. Dairy and Food Division |
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Total Pages | : 978 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Pennsylvania. Dept. of Agriculture. Dairy and Food Division |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : William Gadsby |
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Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Publisher | : YouGuide Ltd |
Total Pages | : 115 |
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ISBN | : 1837049637 |
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Author | : David Constantine |
Publisher | : Comma Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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A collection of short stories, includes "The Cave," in which a couple travels to a hidden cavern to lose themselves in a waterfall.