Come Let Us Sing Anyway: A Collection of Short Stories - Couverture souple

Ross, Leone

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845233344 ISBN 13 : 9781845233341

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Shortlisted for Salt Publishing's Scott Prize.

In Leone Ross's luminous collection of short stories ranging from richly extended stories to intense pieces of flash fiction, set between Jamaica and Britain anything can happen.

Ross's setting may be familiar and her characters recognisable, but these stories take a magical/fantastical turn that dramatically transforms the way we see. Other stories draw us straight into the world of the fantastical or the implausible with such meticulous and concrete detail that we accept these as reality: a wife returns from the dead and their marital bickering resumes, a headless girl barely lifts an eyebrow among her school companions, a security guard collects discarded hymens and uncovers a deeper empathy for women.

At the heart of the stories is Leone Ross's refusal to accept any boundary between the erotic and the most inventive kind of pornography. There is a seriousness here too, in the author s intentions: a vision of the fluidity of the person, the inequalities of the body politic from the deaths of black people at the hands of the police, to the deep shifts that signal subtle changes in the nature of capitalism.

This is a richly varied, witty and entertaining collection whose frankness may sometimes tickle, sometimes shock; but always engages the intellect and the heart.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leone Ross is a writer, editor, journalist and academic. Born in England she grew up in Jamaica. Her frst novel was long listed for the Orange Prize. Her work has been widely anthologized, including Slovakia and Australia, and acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post and many more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845233344
• ISBN 13: 9781845233341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible