Gerard Woodward

Broschiertes Buch

Caravan Thieves

Beschreibung

The quotidian and the surreal inhabit the same vivid and perplexing world in this collection of stories. Full of his trademark mixture of humour pathos disappointed families and dysfunctional lives they include an ostracised small-town puppeteer a commuter who fails to recognise his ex-wife a bereaved academic working in the college kitchens after his part in a sex scandal and a family who wake up to find their caravan has been mysteriously transported overnight...

Autor

Gerard is the author of an acclaimed sequence of novels, August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award), I'll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize) and A Curious Earth. He was born in London in 1961, and published several prize-winning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. His latest collection of poetry, We Were Pedestrians was shortlisted for the 2005 T.S.Eliot Prize. He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and lives in Bath with his family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 311g
• ISBN-13: 9780099474777
• ISBN-10: 0099474778
• Artikelnr.: 25543552