Alice Jolly

From Far Around They Saw Us Burn (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 350 Min.
Sprecher: Company, Red Dog Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

From Far Around They Saw Us Burn is the eagerly awaited first short story collection from Alice Jolly, one of the most exciting and accomplished voices in British fiction today. The extraordinary range of work gathered here is united by a fascination with how everyday interactions can transform our lives in unpredictable ways. These are stories of lonely people, outcasts and misfits, and the ghosts that inhabit our intimate spaces. The result is a compelling, arresting and, at times, devastating collection - not least in the title story, which was inspired by the tragic true events of the 1943 Cavan orphanage fire. With an exemplary eye for detail and an intimate understanding of the complexities of human nature, Jolly's collection builds up towards the ultimate question: what is revealed of us when we peel away the surfaces, and is it enough?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unbound
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789652154
• Artikelnr.: 71505915

Autorenporträt

Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. She won the 2014 V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize with one of her short stories, ‘Ray the Rottweiler’, and her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns won the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize. She has published two novels with Simon & Schuster – What the Eye Doesn’t See and If Only You Knew – and four of her plays have been produced by the professional company of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. Her novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, published by Unbound in 2018, was long-listed for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her latest novel, Between the Regions of Kindness, was published by Unbound in 2019. In 2021, Jolly was awarded an O. Henry Prize for her short story ‘From Far Around They Saw Us Burn’. She lives in Gloucestershire, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Ray the Rottweiler
1  Keep Right on to Eternity Road
13  Frog Warning
19  Big Hugs and Kisses
31  Burn Before Reading
37  Safe Passage
49  All the Places that I Have Not Seen
57  Here’s to the Hole that Never Heals
65  Mrs Hopper Is Waving Her Arms
83  We All Know Mr Jones
91  For You, Hannah
103  The Last House on the Marsh
109  Smooth and Sleek
125  The Stop
133  From Far Around They Saw Us Burn
141 Acknowledgements
155  A Note on the Author
157  Supporters
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