Antony J Stowers

Broschiertes Buch

The Degas Complex

Short stories

Beschreibung

'Imagination links with memory' is a quote attributed to the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and one which he passed on as advice to many apprentice artists including Paul Gauguin, the title chosen to reflect this quote as it sums up what this book of short stories is: memories mixed up like colours on a Degas palette with liberal sprinkling of contemporary adult imagination. This collection of short stories - featuring 'Take a bow', 'What the butler saw', 'Josephine Shakespeare' and 'Monkey Jack' - set in Darlington in the 1970's does exactly that: links the distant, childhood and youthful memories of the author Jethro Anson Nowsty with his own contemporary imagination in this the third instalment of his life.

Autor

Darlington for Culture Review This is the story of an ordinary boy from an ordinary working-class family in an ordinary northern town. If that sounds ordinary, it's not!Jethro Anson Nowsty was born and brought up in Darlington and we follow his life from his very earliest memories up to his approaching adulthood. This mixed-up kid was born in the early 1960s and the author describes everyday life as it was then - warts 'n' all. The music, food, transport, housing and entertainment of the 1960s and 1970s are all brought into clear focus in a series of short stories. Instead of a strictly chronological order, the author goes back and forth through the years writing in a way that draws the reader back in time to when a computer filled a whole room and dialling a phone number took longer than the call itself. All of this is interwoven with national and international news and the background to all of these stories is Darlington. All the landmark buildings, roads and parks, shops and schools are mentioned and described. It's a history of a special time in a special town, told with humour and affection through the eyes of a special 'mixed-up kid'.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 202g
• ISBN-13: 9781008907492
• ISBN-10: 1008907499
• Artikelnr.: 66431420