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Аннотация: Dancing On the Outskirts
| Автор/составитель | Mackay Shena |
| Год выпуска | 2018 |
| ISBN | 9780349007052 |
| Производитель | Virago |
| Количество томов | 1 |
| Количество страниц | 312 |
| Переплет | Мягкая обложка |
| Размеры | 200x127x17 мм |
| Цвет | Серый |
| Тип бумаги | офсетная (60-220 г/м2) |
| Вес | 350 |
| Язык | английский |
Shena Mackay, who first came to fame before the age of twenty with two novellas, is the doyenne of the short form. In this volume of previously uncollected stories - including those read on radio - she constantly surprises with a view of the ordinary world that is not at all ordinary.
A grasshopper determinedly takes up residence on a bathroom ceiling; a gecko hiding in a cupboard brings a strange sort of luck; a woman spies from a distance two older women friends after many long years and a memory of how they gallopedin the playground as Starlight Blaze and Pepperpot plays sweetly, suddenly in her mind; pigs are swaddled in blankets, looking like babies in shawls; luggage is packed with youthful hopes and ideals.
She observes how people rub along and reveals the best and worst of us all: a disgruntled schoolboy and his hapless teacher conquer mountains and their antipathy for each other; a girl with green eyes and iridescent hair discovers revenge; a race to be the best mushroom-picker creates only losers; and rotten apples, in the right pair of hands, make a loving pie.
Shena Mackay is a generous and keen-eyed chronicler of the everyday; she deftly brings wisdom and humour to the worlds she creates, worlds that we suddenly, excitingly see anew. She is an utterly original writer.
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Dancing On the Outskirts
- Модель: MYSH4957706
- ISBN 9780349007052
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