| Descript |
168 pages 19 cm |
| Note |
English Magic moves through fields and parklands, estates and empty beaches.??It lands at Heathrow Airport, takes a taxi to the suburbs, finds emptiness and oppression.?It strikes out for the countryside on May Day, to where maypoles whirl and haybales blaze, and where blessings sound like threats.??It’s in a flat, drags itself out of half sleep... and there’s something tapping behind the gas fire...??In her debut collection of short stories, Uschi Gatward takes us on a tour of an England simultaneously domestic and wild, familiar and strange, real and imagined. Coupling the past and the present, merging the surreal and the mundane, English Magic is a collection full of humour and warmth, subversion and intoxication. It announces the arrival of a shining new talent |
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Skönlitteratur
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Noveller
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Samhällsskildringar
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Short stories.
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| Classmark |
823/.92
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He.016
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781913111106 |
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