The Life of Almost - Couverture souple

Vaught, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1999703022 ISBN 13 : 9781999703028

Editeur : Patrician Press, 2018

Synopsis

The Life of Almost is a dark comedy set in Wales and a spectral reworking of Dickens's Great Expectations.

Almost is a boy, brought up by his sister, Perfection. He is shrouded by bereavement and surrounded by the hauntings of his family s undead. He plays in the sea caves, visits graves, amongst mermaids, longing mermen, morticians, houses that breathe and a poltergeist moss that grabs your foot. A cast of family and friends drawn from sea caves, the embalming table, the graveyard and the dark Clandestine House, which respires heavily and in which time has stopped.

Like Dickens' Pip, Almost sings into the sea and likes to tell stories. He is thwarted in love but understands - on the night he meets a ragged convict, for the convict is a merman, come on land - that he has deep and commanding powers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna Vaught is a novelist, essayist, poet, editor, reviewer and also a secondary English teacher, tutor, mentor to young people, mental health campaigner and mother of three sons. She runs the Fabian Bursary, offering one to one teaching for disadvantaged young people interested in the arts. Anna has written a third novel; her fourth book is non-fiction and she is already working on her fifth book and a collection of short stories. Anna is writing features and reviews for Litro, Review31, Contemporary Small Press and The Writers and Artists Yearbook. Her first book, Killing Hapless Ally, a novel about mental health, is published by Patrician Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Patrician Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1999703022
• ISBN 13: 9781999703028
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible