Name: From Far Around They Saw Us Burn von Alice Jolly
SKU: 9781789651621
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From Far Around They Saw Us Burn Zusammenfassung

From Far Around They Saw Us Burn Alice Jolly

Words begin to lose their meanings, flaking off into air like moths. Friendships cultivated over a lifetime fall apart in testing circumstances. What does the stranger with yellow eyes really want?

From Far Around They Saw Us Burn is the eagerly awaited first short story collection from Alice Jolly, one of the most exciting and accomplished voices in British fiction today.

The extraordinary range of work gathered here is united by a fascination with how everyday interactions can transform our lives in unpredictable ways. These are stories of lonely people, outcasts and misfits, and the ghosts that inhabit our intimate spaces. The result is a compelling, arresting and, at times, devastating collection - not least in the title story, which was inspired by the tragic true events of the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire.

Written with an exemplary eye for detail and an intimate understanding of the complexities of human nature, Jolly's collection builds up towards the ultimate question: what is revealed of us when we peel away the surfaces, and is it enough?

From Far Around They Saw Us Burn Bewertungen

'I was so impressed by From Far Around They Saw Us Burn. The gift of looking at ordinary life slant-eyed to see what is strange, sadistic, kind, loving or moral is a rare one. Its characters are so vulnerable, yet often unexpectedly compassionate or resilient, transfixed by Jolly's cool, elegant prose. It's well worth reading, and a real achievement' Amanda Craig

'It is this fearlessness, this indefatigable digging into human behaviour to reveal the uncomfortable truths of our lives, that gives Jolly's writing real weight. In these stories, she takes on the bored and the lonely, even the perverts, the awkward and the bad. Where a less wise writer might have produced monsters, Jolly, with tenderness, finds their souls' The Guardian

Über Alice Jolly

Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. She won the 2014 V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize with one of her short stories, 'Ray the Rottweiler', and her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns won the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize. She has published two novels with Simon & Schuster - What the Eye Doesn't See and If Only You Knew - and four of her plays have been produced by the professional company of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. Her novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, published by Unbound in 2018, was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her latest novel, Between the Regions of Kindness, was published by Unbound in 2019. In 2021, Jolly was awarded an O. Henry Prize for her short story 'From Far Around They Saw Us Burn'. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

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Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR013015842

ISBN 13

9781789651621

ISBN 10

178965162X

Titel

From Far Around They Saw Us Burn Alice Jolly

Autor

Alice Jolly

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Unbound

Datum

20230330

Anzahl der Seiten

240

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