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The Stories (Paperback)
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The Stories (Paperback)
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Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been
writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the
originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her
longer fiction. Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment
are Gardam's themes, and like a magician she plucks them from the
quietest of corners: from Wimbledon gardens and cold churches, from
London buses and industrial backstreets. A mother watching her
children on the beach dreams of a long-lost lover, an abandoned
army wife sees a ghost at a moorland gate, a translator adrift in
Geneva is haunted by the unspeakable manifestation of her own
fears, and a colonial servant wreaks a delicious revenge on her
monstrous masters. Gardam's cast is wide and wonderful, saints and
mystics, trollops and curmudgeons, yearning mothers and lost
children, beloved figures such as Old Filth and less familiar - but
equally unforgettable - characters like Signor Settimo, the
sad-eyed provincial photographer marooned in Shipley or Florrie
Ironside, the ferocious matron he seduces. With a mischievous ear
for dialogue, a glittering eye for detail and a capacious
understanding of the vagaries of the human heart, Jane Gardam's
stories will captivate, sadden and delight.
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Imprint: |
Abacus
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2015 |
First published: |
2014 |
Authors: |
Jane Gardam
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Dimensions: |
198 x 125 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
480 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-349-14038-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-349-14038-3 |
Barcode: |
9780349140384 |
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