Scablands and Other Stories Paperback / softback
by Dr Jonathan Taylor
Part of the Salt Modern Stories series
Paperback / softback
Description
These are tales from the post-industrial scablands - stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration.
The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma.
A teacher obsessively canes himself. A neurologist forgets where home is. A starving woman sells hugs in an abandoned kiosk. Yet sometimes, even in the twilit scablands, there's also beauty, music, laughter.
Sometimes a town square is filled with bubbles. Sometimes sisters dream they can fly. Sometimes an old man plays Bach to an empty street, two ailing actors see animal shapes in clouds, a cancer survivor searches for a winning lottery ticket in her rundown flat. And sometimes Gustav Mahler lives just round the corner, hoarding rare records in a Stoke terrace.
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, No
- Publisher:Salt Publishing
- Publication Date:15/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781784632946
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, No
- Publisher:Salt Publishing
- Publication Date:15/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781784632946
