A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George
Saunders 'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua
Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans
borders and centuries with unrivalled mastery. These ten stories
ring with voices as diverse as those belonging to Arctic explorers
in history's most nightmarish expedition, the Montgolfier brothers
competing to be the first man to fly, and two American
frontierswomen whose passionate connection is severed by jealous
husbands and a deadly snowstorm. In each case the personal is the
political as these humans, while falling in love or negotiating
marital pitfalls or simply coming to terms with their own failings,
face the tidal wave of nature's indifference and cruelty. History
has swept them from our sympathy; Jim Shepard has reached into the
past and sought them out. In his first collection to be published
in the UK, this celebrated master of the short story displays his
formidable acuity in imagining these wildly different worlds, and
what our various lives feel like in the grip of catastrophe.
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