In Brief Lives, six fictions by Christopher Meredith take the reader from the South China Sea in 1946 to a nameless place at the end of time, where the dead have risen. In between are stories in the new post-war South Wales, in which characters sense their aloneness while being a part of the larger world.
The individual and community has been at the heart of much of Meredith's prose and poetry, as it has been in British life over the last century, and it is his skill in creating characters whose brief lives the reader finds engaging, which makes this book so relevant.
In the worlds of Brief Lives, Christopher Meredith is characteristically thought-provoking sometimes challenging about what it is to live. Lyrical, authentic and engaging, these fictions tell us about the world and about ourselves.
Brief Lives is published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Christopher Meredith's groundbreaking debut novel, Shifts, voted one of the top novels from Wales in English.
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Christopher Meredith is the author of Shifts (1988), Griffri (1991) and Sidereal Time (1998). He is also the author of three poetry collections, numerous articles and a book for children in English and Welsh. Meredith's books have consistently attracted high-profile reviews in the Guardian, the Independent, the Sunday Times and the New York Times. A professor of creative writing at the University of Glamorgan, he has given talks, readings and lectures worldwide.
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Hardback. Etat : New. From the nightmarish first story set in the South China Sea in 1946 to the final piece, set nowhere at the end of time, Brief Lives demonstrates in a short compass a huge range in technique and milieu and a unity of theme and sensibility. It opens naturalistically but is distinctly non-realist by the close. We meet an ex-collier in 1950 anguishing over whether to return to the pit, a young mother in the early 1960s quietly shepherding those around her through a bleak Christmas day, an industrial chemist in this century plunged into vortices of memories that cause him to question his grasp of the world, and more.Meredith's fiction has been marked by its willingness to push at literary boundaries, and Brief Lives is no exception: it is an intense distillation of Meredith's abiding concerns to explore how memory shapes the present and the present shapes memory, the interplay between beautifully realised individual lives and the wider historical process, and the paradox of simultaneous human isolation and community. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781781724521
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. From the nightmarish first story set in the South China Sea in 1946 to the final piece, set nowhere at the end of time, Brief Lives demonstrates in a short compass a huge range in technique and milieu and a unity of theme and sensibility. It opens naturalistically but is distinctly non-realist by the close. We meet an ex-collier in 1950 anguishing over whether to return to the pit, a young mother in the early 1960s quietly shepherding those around her through a bleak Christmas day, an industrial chemist in this century plunged into vortices of memories that cause him to question his grasp of the world, and more.Merediths fiction has been marked by its willingness to push at literary boundaries, and Brief Lives is no exception: it is an intense distillation of Merediths abiding concerns to explore how memory shapes the present and the present shapes memory, the interplay between beautifully realised individual lives and the wider historical process, and the paradox of simultaneous human isolation and community. In Brief Lives, six fictions by prize-winning author Christopher Meredith take us from the South China Sea in 1946 through a series of vivid tales in the late 20th and early 21st centuries to a climactic story set at the end of time. These are moving stories executed in precise and luminous prose by a key Welsh writer at the height of his powers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781781724521
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