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FEMINA REAL
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| By: |
A. L. Barker |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.00 |
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£10.80 |
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£1.20 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571255019 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571255016 |
| Availability: |
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| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
15 October, 2009 |
| Pages: |
222 |
| Description: |
A collection of nine short stories, which includes: 'Noon', "Glory, Glory Allelujah"; "Almost an International Incident", and "Monstra Deliciosa". |
| Synopsis: |
This collection of nine short stories contains some of A. L. Barker's most powerful and disquieting fiction. "Noon", about a middle-aged man's unacknowledged trysts with a young girl, memorably expresses the ambivalence and repression which haunts ordinary and respectable lives against the backdrop of a Mediterranean package-holiday hotel; in "Glory, Glory Allelujah" an aging brother and sister attempt to exorcise the imprisoned hopelessness of their lives in a ritual bonfire in memory of their dead mother; and with stories such as "Almost an International Incident" and "Monstra Deliciosa" the author attunes her command of humour and finely wrought levity to display a writing sensibility that alternates between despair and sanguinity to unique, skilful and moving effect. 'She is formidable, and from a bare corner of human relations gathers a rich harvest' - Adam Mars-Jones. 'Her glancing, allusive writing carries one along easily, darting from invention to invention ...Underneath there is a firm, ordering imagination and the poise of perfect pitch' - "New Statesman".'It would be hard to find anyone who chooses words more exactly or constructs with more precision' - Penelope Fitzgerald. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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