Stick No Bills - Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth
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Writing both of imagined characters and as "I", Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw's stories deal with the experiences of loss, disappointment and the attempt to be self-truthful. In the sequence of stories that chart childhood family memory and the break-up of those connections through deaths and the passage of time, there is a fine balance between recording the feelings of desolation and the pleasures of reconstructing the joys of the past through art and memory. There is, too, in the collection as a whole, a richly consoling passage towards a sense of continuance and human resilience,

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Produktbeschreibung
Writing both of imagined characters and as "I", Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw's stories deal with the experiences of loss, disappointment and the attempt to be self-truthful. In the sequence of stories that chart childhood family memory and the break-up of those connections through deaths and the passage of time, there is a fine balance between recording the feelings of desolation and the pleasures of reconstructing the joys of the past through art and memory. There is, too, in the collection as a whole, a richly consoling passage towards a sense of continuance and human resilience,
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Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw was born in Trinidad, and is Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies. She has coedited several academic works and has published two collections of short stories: Stick No Bills and Four Taxis Facing North. Her novel, Mrs. B was short listed for the "Best Book Fiction" in The Guyana Prize for Literature Award.