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Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
In Laataandbiegstories en sulke dinge word die leser meegevoer deur onvergeetlike stories wat om die kampvuur lewe kry.
Soms is dit humoristies, soms deernisvol, soms skerp ironies, maar altyd boeiend. Daar word vertel van die nag van die donkie, van Tante wat sag word, van Pollie van die populiere en van die intrinsieke waarde van Victor, die lelike skaaphondkruising.
In Jan Nel se kortverhale herken die leser homself onomwonde; dis juis hoekom mens lag. Die mens, met al sy swakhede, bly tog maar mens, en om te lag is soveel makliker as om jouself te kasty.
Incorporating elements of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and
poetry, Diane Glancy's stories are lyrical yet down to earth, often
tough and gritty. Experimental, sometimes surreal in form, they
nevertheless concern people who are very real-a color-blind young
boy who watches planes in flight and imagines color; a shy stamp
collector who speculates that he and his friend, like the stamps,
could go anywhere via the U.S. Post Office; an old woman who dies
in the cold landscape of her inner life but retains her vision; a
cynical woman reluctant to take risks with yet another traveling
man.
In spite of life's hard realities, Firesticks is filled with
humor and hope and a stitching together of cultures, as the
crossblood characters search for their identities.
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It Takes Two
(Hardcover)
Julia Baznik; Foreword by Pat A Hargis
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Phantastes
(Hardcover)
George MacDonald; Edited by Greville Macdonald; Illustrated by John Bell
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R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
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