ALL THE BANANAS I'VE NEVER EATEN by Tony Williams ( 9781844713219 )

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Title:

ALL THE BANANAS I'VE NEVER EATEN
TALES OF LOVE AND LONELINESS

By:

Tony Williams

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1844713210

ISBN 13:

9781844713219

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Publisher:

SALT PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

1 September, 2012

Pages:

160

Description:

In these tiny stories are brief lives that will make you laugh and pity and love. Each story crams a whole world into a couple of pages - you can sneak them one at a time whenever you have a spare minute, or gobble the lot - with a cast of hundreds - in a single day.

Synopsis:

Winner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story CollectionWho are the stars of these brief lives? A boy who steals a trundlewheel. An astronaut. A betrayed wife. A man jealous of his lover's chickens. Commuters. Glampers. Psychotic twins. What do they have in common? Nothing - except the funny-haha and funny-strange conditions of their lives that bring them joy or misery and make us laugh at them and pity them and love them too. What happens when you lose both your eyes to squash accidents? When you inherit a shop full of curios? When you fall for the spirit of a famous murderer? When your son's a tramp? When the one you love is about to kill herself? Or has the Ganges delta in her bloodshot eye? When your butcher doesn't know anything about meat? Discovering the answers to these questions will knock you sideways - and show that the more we understand about people's oddity, the more we come to appreciate their essential humanity.In these tiny stories, written over a period of a few short months, Tony Williams pushes the limits of prose fiction, homing in on the moments that sum up lifetimes and their complicated, bittersweet emotions. Each story crams a whole world into a couple of pages - you can sneak them one at a time whenever you have a spare minute, or gobble the lot - with a cast of hundreds - in a single day.

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Salt Publishing

Prizes:

Winner of Saboteur Awards: Best Short Story Collection 2013 (UK) Long-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2013 (UK) Long-listed for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2013 (Ireland)

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