Medals and Prizes
(Sprache: Englisch)
John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in Canada. He comes as close to the baffling, painful comedy of human experience as a writer can get.' Alice Munro
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John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in Canada. He comes as close to the baffling, painful comedy of human experience as a writer can get.' Alice Munro
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Medals and Prizes brings together eight of the best stories and novellas by John Metcalf, a virtuosic champion of the short form. Metcalf was born in Carlisle and emigrated to Canada as a young man, where both his innovations as a prose stylist and his talent as an editor are legendary. Until now, he has never been published in Britain. Spanning more than fifty years, and ranging from some of his earliest published stories to the astonishing late-career 'Medals and Prizes', the work gathered here shows us a writer whose voice and ingenuity, at every stage of his career, is unmistakeable.Entertaining and moving and mischievous, these elegant fictions are a homecoming for a writer ready to assume his rank among Britain's great short fiction masters.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Medals and Prizes “
Table of Contents:Singles Gents Only
The Children Green and Golden
The Nipples of Venus
Girl in Gingham
Dandelions
Medals and Prizes
Ceazar Salad
Keys and Watercress
Autoren-Porträt von John Metcalf
Born in Carlisle in 1938, John Metcalf emigrated to Canada in 1962, where he became a lauded writer and a vocal champion of the short story form, as an editor nurturing some of Canada's great talents from early in their careers. He is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Going Down Slow, Kicking Against the Pricks and Adult Entertainment, which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. He lives in Ottawa.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Metcalf
- 2020, 350 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: And Other Stories
- ISBN-10: 1911508962
- ISBN-13: 9781911508960
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.' Washington Post 'Hilarious, touching and delightful . . . brilliant concision and understated humor.' Los Angeles Times'One of Canada's best kept literary secrets.' Harper's Magazine'An abiding reputation as one of the finest prose stylists in contemporary Canada . . . The collections of his short stories are often regarded as his best work.' The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English 'In the novella 'Medals and Prizes' Robert Forde first appears in 1950s England at age 14 as he shares with his best friend a love of words, art, and jazz records [...] In the short story 'Ceazer Salad', Forde walks about Ottawa and rails at misused apostrophes and other abominations after his latest book is panned. Metcalf, a highly regarded Canadian writer born in 1938 whose life resembles Forde's, also brings to mind variously Wodehouse, Waugh, Kingsley Amis, and Kyril Bonfiglioli. This is a book that could restore anyone's faith in the pleasure of reading.' Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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