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Ten tragicomic tales of environmental and personal disaster from
the margins of town and country. A troubled hipster is seduced by
an electricity pylon. Sinister omens manifest in a supermarket car
park. A motorway bridge becomes a father. Malevolent bacteria
plague a polar icebreaker. A bioengineered abomination lurks in a
Gloucestershire railway terminus The weekly bin collection pushes a
man over the edge. A former squatter clings to her home on a
crumbling cliff. Joyriders are foiled by Anglo Saxon floodwaters.
Vampiric entities stalk B&Q. And fiery catastrophe comes to the
zoo. Gareth E. Rees's first collection of short fiction explores
lives on the verge of breakdown, where ordinary people are driven
to extremes by the effects of late capitalism and ecological
collapse.
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.
One volume featuring two action-packed tales from the universe of
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba! Savage demons devour unsuspecting
humans in Taisho-era Japan. Armed with special swords, the Demon
Slayer Corps fights to stop the devastation demons spread. Giyu
Tomioka, the sole Water Hashira, and Kyojuro Rengoku, a
high-ranking Kinoe, embark on missions to eliminate demons and
prove their mettle as two of the fiercest Demon Slayers. Giyu heads
north to an area where a band of hunters was killed. He and the
Insect Hashira meet Yae, the daughter of a slain hunter, who
believes a bear killed her father, but the truth is harder to face.
Kyojuro also receives his newest assignment and hopes completing it
will prove he's worthy of the title Flame Hashira, which his father
abandoned. An explosive battle unfolds as Kyojuro takes on a demon
of the Twelve Kizuki who holds a grudge against Kyojuro's father.
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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