The Redemption of Galen Pike: and Other Stories

ISBN-13: 9781907773716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str.

Carys Davies

Opis

In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change her life. At a jubilee celebration in a northern English town a middle-aged alderman opens his heart to Queen Victoria. A teenage daughter leaves home in search of adventure. High in the Cumbrian fells a woman seeks help from her father's enemy. Spare, precise, charged with a prickly wit, the stories in Carys Davies's sparkling second collection remind us how little we know of the lives of others. "extraordinarily powerful" - VS PRITCHETT PRIZE JUDGES JANE GARDAM, PENELOPE LIVELY AND JACOB ROSS "darkly funny and unsettling" -BOYD TONKIN The Independent on Some New Ambush "As if Mark Twain and Annie Proulx had sat down at a desk together ....] I shall be looking out for more." -PIERS PLOWRIGHT "a writer willing to tackle the hardest of all fictional forms - the short story. This is a region in which so many fail ...] she can do what it is essential to do in this form, she can create a micro-world, which has reverberations beyond its size and scope, which is metaphysical." -SARAH HALL

Recenzje

Extraordinarily powerful

VS Pritchett Prize judges Jane Gardam, Penelope Lively and Jacob Ross on The Redemption of Galen Pike

Spis treści

• The Quiet
• On Commercial Hill
• Jubilee
• The Travellers
• Myth
• Bonnet
• First Journeyman
• Precious
• The Taking of Bunny Clay
• Miracle at Hawk's Bay
• In the Cabin in the Woods
• The Coat
• The Redemption of Galen Pike
• Wicked Fairy
• Creed
• Nothing Like My Nightmare
• Sibyl
• Notes & Acknowledgements
• Note on 'Bonnet'

O autorze

Carys Davies's first novel West won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Award, was Runner-Up for the Society of Author's McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her short stories have been widely published and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2015. She lives in Edinburgh.