Comma - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1857546857 ISBN 13: 9781857546859

Casa editrice: Comma Pr, 2002

Riassunto

"This collection of short stories by 15 contemporary writers shows a remarkable variety. Journalists Mark Kermode and Paul Morley make first forays into fiction, and dramatists Amanda Dalton and Shelagh Delaney recast themselves as narrators. The anthology features leading poets as storytellersùDavid Constantine, Clare Pollard, Matt Weltonùand novelists at the outset of their careers, including Gwendoline Riley, a Guardian new novelist of the year. Also included are Gerard Woodward and Carl Tighe, both of whom were shortlisted for last year's Whitbread First Novel Prize. There is a Manchester feel to the book, the city at once strange and strangely familiar, in which friendships break up or never quite begin. There are decaying bars and anonymous high windows; lives are relived on home video, deaths are pawed over in a crime photographer's developing fluid; a woman dozing in her bathtub feels a wooden boat sprouting from her head. Real or surreal, the stories prove that, far from being a genre of undeveloped ideas, the short story is alive and well in Britain."

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L'autore

Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey (1960) at the age of 17, and a year later The Lion in Love. She has since published a collection of short stories, Sweetly Sings the Donkey, and has written widely for TV, radio and cinema. Her screenplays include The White Bus (1966), Charlie Bubbles (1968) and Dance With a Stranger (1985). Paul Morley has been a writer and columnist for the NME, The Face, Blitz, The New Statesman, The Guardian and Esquire. He was an original presenter of BBC2's The Late Show and a founding member of the group Art of Noise. His first book, Nothing, was published by Faber in 2000. Tony Wilson's first piece of fiction, The Lightweight Trigger was published anonymously in The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (Penguin, 1999). He has since written a novelisation of Michael Winterbottom s film Twenty-Four Hour Party People (2002). David Constantine has published several volumes of poetry, most recently, Nine Fathom Deep (2009). He is an award-winning translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. He is also author of one novel, Davies, and Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton. His three previous short story collections are Back at the Spike, the highly acclaimed Under the Dam (Comma, 2005), and The Shieling (Comma, 2009), which was shortlisted for the 2010 Frank O Connor International Short Story Award. Constantine s story Tea at the Midland won the BBC National Short Story Award 2010.

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• Editore: Comma Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1857546857
• ISBN 13: 9781857546859
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 220
• Redattore: Page Ra