Synopsis
This collection brings together new and uncollected stories and selections from E.A. Markhams two previous collections, Something Unusual (1984) and Ten Stories (1992). Each of the stories has its own crafted completeness, whether in the observant humour of ""The Pig Was Mine"", the bleakness of ""Skeletons"", the audacious mythologizing of ""A Short History of St. Cesaire"", or the absurdist magical realism of ""Digging."" They confirm him as one of the most original users of the short story form in both British and Caribbean fiction.
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À propos de l?auteur
E.A. (Archie) Markham died unexpectedly in Paris on 23rd March, Easter day. Born in Montserrat in 1939, E.A. Markham worked in the theatre, in the media and as a literary editor.
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Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs: Selected Short Stories, 1970-2000
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Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, United Kingdom, 2003
ISBN 10 : 1900715694
ISBN 13 : 9781900715690
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Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs: Selected Stories 1972-2002
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ISBN 10 : 1900715694
ISBN 13 : 9781900715690
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Paperback. Etat : New. When E.A. Markham writes a story about the Other World Cup (Montserrat loses 4-0 to Bhutan - the volcanic eruption has destroyed all the football pitches in Montserrat) and a few months later is actually invited to a literature festival in Bhutan, this chimes in with his fiction. In 1972, his alter ego, Pewter Stapleton, invented the island of St Caesare (next door to Montserrat, but more independent-minded) as part of an elaborate scam to enjoy the rich perks of a UN conference. Since then, the island has been pencilled in on a couple of maps; and a handful of people claim to have been there.Nothing is straightforward in Markham's fictive world. His stories constantly deny conventional expectations and make us rethink both how we interpret experience and what we expect of fiction.Conventional narrative could never convey the complexities of the recurrent and entertaining cast of mainly Caribbean characters as they make sense of their remembered and reinvented lives. Digression becomes an art form both in Pewter Stapleton's narration and in their stories. It is the rich web of words they weave that leads Markham to his image of the drawing room as a repository of the talk of family and friends as perhaps the most valuable possession taken by Caribbean people through Customs.This collection brings together new and uncollected stories and selections from E.A. Markham's two previous collections, Something Unusual (1984) and Ten Stories (1992). Each of the stories has its own crafted completeness, whether in the observant humour of 'The Pig Was Mine', the bleakness of 'Skeletons', the audacious mythologizing of 'A Short History of St. Cesaire', or the absurdist magical realism of 'Digging.' They confirm him as one of the most original users of the short story form in both British and Caribbean fiction.E.A. (Archie) Markham died unexpectedly in Paris on 23rd March, Easter day. Born in Montserrat in 1939, E.A. Markham worked in the theatre, in the media and as a literary editor. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781900715690
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Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs: Selected Stories 1972-2002 (Paperback)
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd, Yorkshire, 2002
ISBN 10 : 1900715694
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The stories in this collection have as their core the motion of travel, primarily from Montserrat to Britain, but also to continental Europe. They ask, 'What have we brought with us? What do we find?' For Markham the drawing room is both the repository of memories, of family network, and the riposte of a West Indian from a society that had its own social graces but finds itself in a Britain that harbours the stereotype that nothing of value has been brought. Each of the stories has its own crafted completeness, whether in the observant humour of 'The Pig Was Mine', the bleakness of 'Skeletons', the audacious mythologising of 'A Short History of St. Cesaire' or the absurdist magical realism of 'Digging'. But within the great variety of tone, there are recurrences of character, alter-egos and location. Indeed, while the stories can be read in any order, the book can be read as a modernist narrative, with each episode being part of a whole. E.A. Markham consistently describes himself as a West Indian, not a Black Britain, and it is a distinctly Montserratian eye, ever alert to masks and trickster strategies, that he casts over the Britain he knows so well. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781900715690
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Taking The Drawing Room Through Customs
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