Moments in Time: Poems - Rippier, Jo
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These stories are in general an attempt to recapture and encapsulate aspects of a distant past that will soon have faded for ever Tiny scenes, events, memories, are brought back in the form of a reality that has, through the workings of time, become fictionalized. Who now knows what the reality actually was? Contents: Sporting Notes -- A Simple Question -- Martial Arts - The Art of the Short Story -- Hatches. Matches and Despatches - The Beginning of an End -- Lines of Communication -- A Morning in Northern Ireland - Irish Postman -- Achilles Heel -- A Deeply Objective Fairy Tale -- Secret…mehr

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These stories are in general an attempt to recapture and encapsulate aspects of a distant past that will soon have faded for ever Tiny scenes, events, memories, are brought back in the form of a reality that has, through the workings of time, become fictionalized. Who now knows what the reality actually was? Contents: Sporting Notes -- A Simple Question -- Martial Arts - The Art of the Short Story -- Hatches. Matches and Despatches - The Beginning of an End -- Lines of Communication -- A Morning in Northern Ireland - Irish Postman -- Achilles Heel -- A Deeply Objective Fairy Tale -- Secret Sharer - Safe Distance -- A Bit on the Side -- Temps Perdu-- Eternal Triangle.
Autorenporträt
Jo Rippier was born in Plymouth in 1935, and educated at King's School Worcester and Emmanuel College Cambridge. He gained his Ph.D. in English Literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitatät, where he was a lecturer in the English Department until retiring in 1998. His previous publications include 'The Short Stories of Sean O'Faolain: A Study in Descriptive Techniques', and 'Some Postwar English Novelists', a volume of short stories, 'Goodnight, Morning, and collections of poetry', Seasons and Remembrance (1981), Beginnings, Endings (1991), Past Present (1996), Against the Stream (1999, with aquarelles by Gerhard Elsner), Late Motley (2001), Something Old, Something New (2007), Echoes and Reflections (2009), Footsteps (2011), The Silence of Snow (2013), Darkness and Light (2014), Shadows (2015) and Sights and Sounds (2017).