Scablands and Other Stories (Paperback)

These are tales from the post-industrial scablands – stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma. A teacher obsessively canes himself. A neurologist forgets where home is. A starving woman sells hugs in an abandoned kiosk. Yet sometimes, even in the twilit scablands, there’s also beauty, music, laughter. Sometimes a town square is filled with bubbles. Sometimes sisters dream they can fly. Sometimes an old man plays Bach to an empty street, two ailing actors see animal shapes in clouds, a cancer survivor searches for a winning lottery ticket in her rundown flat. And sometimes Gustav Mahler lives just round the corner, hoarding rare records in a Stoke terrace.

General

Imprint:	Salt Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Salt Modern Stories
Release date:	July 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Jonathan Taylor
Dimensions:	178 x 111 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Mass Market
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-78463-294-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	1-78463-294-5
Barcode:	9781784632946

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