Scablands and Other Stories

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Winner of the 2025 Arnold Bennett Book PrizeThese 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-15
Mått:111 x 178 x 15 mm
Vikt:144 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Salt Modern Stories
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Salt Publishing
ISBN:9781784632946
Utmärkelser:Winner of The Arnold Bennett Book Prize 2025 (UK)

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Jonathan Taylor is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His books include the memoir Take Me Home (Granta, 2007), and the novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012). Both novels were shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award, and Take Me Home was recently named as one of the Five Best Books on Neuroscience by Prof. Andrew Lees. Jonathan teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk

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Although each of these compelling stories stands alone, there are at least two possible links between them all: first, the political nature (with a lower-case “p”); and second, the desperate need these characters have for connection in this isolating world. Such themes unite them as a collection. This is a short story collection that I strongly recommend.