Stewkey Blues: Stories

ISBN-13: 9781784632458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 176 str.

D. J. Taylor

Opis

Some of the characters in Stewkey Blues have lived in Norfolk all their lives. Others are short-term residents or passage migrants. Whether young or old, self-confident or ground-down, local or blow-in, all of them are reaching uneasy compromises with the world they inhabit and the landscape in which that life takes place.

Recenzje

Famed though it is for its flatness, Norfolk is a county of manifold aspects, many of which are captured in these sharp, subtle new stories by native son DJ Taylor. They all emerged from 2020's lockdown, and together delineate the region's geographical and social range, occasionally squinting back in time and tuning in to mythical echoes.

Hephzibah Anderson Observer

O autorze

D. J. Taylor has written twelve novels, including Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011), both long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize, and, most recently Rock and Roll is Life: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who was There (2018). His non-fiction includes Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography, The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016) and Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951 (2019). He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore.