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Chemistry and Other Stories

Autor Tim Pears
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iun 2022
'As good as any modern fiction you will read this year'Sunday Times, Best new short story collectionsA wife compulsively digs in her garden. Two brothers, long estranged, reunite for a terse, heady summer. A woman flies to Krakow to see her adult son. At dusk, a teenage girl pushes her dying mother out into the sea. A small boy sits on his own in the cinema, entranced by the cowboys who light up the screen.With these short stories, Tim Pears illuminates a series of blazing moments in quiet lives - the tragic, strange, funny and beautiful fragments that make and unmake us - and shines a light into the gulfs that lie between us and those who should know us best.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526623416
ISBN-10: 1526623412
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Adored by critics and readers alike, Tim Pears' writing has sold 150,000 copies TCM and been compared to the works of Robert Macfarlane, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy, Laurie Lee, LP Hartley, Thomas Hardy, Flora Thompson, Cynan Jones and Ben Myers

Notă biografică

Tim Pears is the winner of a Lannan Prize and the author of ten novels, includingIn the Place of Fallen Leaves(winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award),In a Land of Plenty(made into a ten-part BBC series),Landed(shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2011, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011) and most recently the critically acclaimed West Country Trilogy. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Reading Round Lector, and has taught creative writing for Arvon, the University of Oxford, First Story and Ruskin College, among others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He and his wife live in Oxford. They have two children.

Recenzii

The stories have a strong sense of the reality of rural life and its underbelly, the curious dynamics of families, and analmost mystical feel for mortality. These are unforced and spacious pieces, totally sure-footed in their telling and as good as any modern fiction you will read this year
At the heart of his collection liesChemistry, a compelling portrait of family and migration
He heads into the contemporary world and the moments that can darken or illuminate a life . These stories . are all given the same wise consideration, and described with an unerring, kindly exactitude
Lyrical and gentle, with a theme of familial interplay
PRAISE FOR TIM PEARS:Goodness, Tim Pears writes beautifully . the descriptions of rural life, executed with painterly exactness, are a constant delight. The prose really sings
This is it. This is the real thing. This is whatever I mean by the work of a born writer . Comic and wry and elegiac and shrewd and thoughtful all at once. Please read it
His prose is luminous, drawing in the reader . Pears' fiction has been likened to Thomas Hardy's, and the comparison is apposite ... Powerful, vivid and humane
Tim Pears deserves a place among the best rural writers . An exemplary historical novelist with a Romantic eye for nature ... This heady walk through the forgotten lanes of England thrums with life
A gifted storyteller, steeped in country lore and the beauty of ordinary events. Like Thomas Hardy whose kindred spirit quietly animates these pages, he is concerned with the dignity of work, the force of destiny and the consequences of human passion
Reminiscent of Faulkner and García Márquez, the writing retains a very English scale . Sensitive, heart-warming and hallucinatory
The writing is so genuine. Nothing is posturing or romanticised. The characters really touched me. There's so much talent here
It is most beautifully written, hypnotic as Proust, very funny and full of love that doesn't cloy . It is a dreamy, easy, wonderful read
Makes it quite possible to believe in magic
Highly atmospheric . It had an intoxicating, magical quality which completely beguiled me