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ISBN 10: 095482802X ISBN 13: 9780954828028
Casa editrice: Comma Pr, 2005

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This short story collection features three authors who each contribute half a dozen stories that are linked by their shared setting. Jean Sprackland follows characters clinging to lost dreams and obsessions amid the dunes and fairgrounds of Southport. Set in the derelict rooms and vandalized stairwells of a tower block in south Manchester, Tim Cooke's stories draw intricate spirals around the claustrophobic lives of those who occupy them. Sean O'Brien's voices are also those of lost souls that actively seek their own dereliction, staggering between the vaulted libraries and nocturnal drinking dens of Tyneside.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Sean O Brien was born in London in 1952 and grew up in Hull. He has published seven collections of verse: The Indoor Park (1983), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Frighteners (1987); HMS Glasshouse (1991); Ghost Train (1995); Downriver (2001); Inferno (2006), his verse version of Dante's Inferno; and The Drowned Book (2007). The latter won the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize. Ghost Train, Downriver and The Drowned Book have all won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), making Sean O'Brien the only poet to have won this prize more than once. His essays have been collected in The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry and he was editor of The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland After 1945. He has translated Aristophanes The Birds for the National Theatre, and dramatised novels for broadcast as BBC Radio 4 Classic Serials, including Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (2004) and Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear (2006). His first collection of short fiction The Silence Room was published with Comma in 2009, and his first novel, Afterlife with Picador in 2010. He currently lives in Newcastle. Jean Sprackland's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day (Spike) was shortlisted for the Forward First Book Award and her second, Hard Water (Cape) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2003 T.S. Eliot Award. She lives in Southport. Tim Cooke has been a lecturer, an internet 'imagineer', a magazine editor and a composer of music for television, and film. His unpublished novel 'The Zero-Sum Game' was the source for Penny Woolcock's 2004 film The Principles of Lust.

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Editore
Comma Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2005
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
095482802X
ISBN 13 
9780954828028
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
176
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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