Somewhere Else, or Even Here (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Somewhere Else, or Even Here The author captures, with honesty, the collisions that can happen between human beings, whether it's a couple facing up to life after the death of a child or lovers broken apart by infidelities either real or imagined. In this title, she explores those moments of realisation, those turning points, which continue to resonate throughout the lives.
Full description- Publisher: Salt Publishing
- Published: 01 December 2011
- Format: Paperback 160 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9781844718801 ISBN 10: 1844718808
- Sales rank: 729,324
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Reviews for Somewhere Else, or Even Here
A masterful collection of stories
This collection of short stories won the Scott Prize, and it is clear from the first story just why. A.J. Ashworth takes us into the worlds her characters inhabit and we are immediately lost in the beautiful prose and the startling imagery she employs. From the first line of the opening story, 'Sometimes Gulls Kill Other Gulls, there is something unsettling that we are being granted a glimpse of, yet we know were are in in safe hands of an accomplished writer. Hard to think that this is her debut.
There is the heartbreaking loss of a child in Paper Lanterns, an ageing woman interviewed by a local reporter about her forthcoming golden wedding anniversary against her struggles with her husband's fading memory, the lengths a a woman goes to following the loss of her husband. All written with a fluency and a freshness of prose that makes you sit up and savour these wonderful stories.
I can't wait to read her next collection. by James Wall
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