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Shine/Variance (Paperback)
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Loot Price R372
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"Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and
love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss,
Irish Times "An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice"
Donal Ryan "These are startling, adventurous and often wonderful
stories. I loved this collection" Roddy Doyle A sharp and
insightful debut short story collection about the pitfalls of
ordinary life A wife yearns to escape the tight-fisted confines of
a package holiday. A boy dreams of footballing greatness as his
mother mourns a loss. A man tries to assemble an absent child's
playhouse, with impossible instructions and too much beer. A woman
seeks clarity from automated voices. A father is distracted from
Christmas tree shopping with his son by the looming pressure of
quarterly sales targets. Shine/Variance captures the tiny crises
and wonders of daily life with warmth, wit and decisive clarity.
Ordinary people - commuters, call centre workers, children and
parents - struggle for stability while craving more, and the schism
between expectation and reality is only rarely bridged. Yet, amidst
the faltering, recognition and bright moments of hope still
illuminate their days. Fresh, tender and darkly funny, these
stories are a window into the longings, frustrations and painfully
human connections of ordinary life from a remarkable new voice in
fiction. "The most powerful new collection I've read in some years"
John Boyne "Brilliantly bats, staggeringly compelling, and
ferociously funny. Stephen Walsh rips the concreteness of reality
straight from us and reflects back a more wobbly version of our
turbulent lives... Completely unique" June Caldwell "Full of
assured originality and freshness - a new writer much to be
welcomed" Bernard MacLaverty
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