The Coward's Tale
(Sprache: Englisch)
A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past
A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past
A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past
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A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past
A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past
A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past
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The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a small Welsh mining community, where he begins an unlikely friendship with Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, the town beggar-storyteller. Ianto is watchman over the legacy of the collapse many years ago of Kindly Light Pit, a disaster whose echoes reverberate down the generations of the town. Through Ianto's stories Laddy is drawn into both the town's history and the conundrums of the present.Why has woodwork teacher Icarus Evans striven most of his life to carve wooden feathers that will float on an updraft? Why is the undertaker Tutt Bevan trying to find a straight path through the town? Why does James Little, the old gas-meter emptier, dig his allotment by moonlight? And why does window cleaner Judah Jones take autumn leaves into a disused chapel?
These and other men of the town, and the women who mothered them, married them and mourned them, are bound together by the echoes of the Kindly Lighttragedy and by the mysterious figure of Ianto Jenkins, whose stories of loyalty and betrayal, loss and love, form an unforgettable, spellbinding tapestry.
The Coward's Tale is a powerfully imagined, poetic and haunting novel, spiked with humour. It is a story of kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past.
Autoren-Porträt von Vanessa Gebbie
Gebbie, VanessaVanessa Gebbie is the author of two collections of stories and contributing editor of a creating writing text book. She has won numerous awards - including prizes at Bridport, Fish and the Willesden Herald (the latter judged by Zadie Smith) - for her short fiction. An extract from The Coward's Tale, her first novel, won the Daily Telegraph 'Novel in a Year' Competition. Vanessa Gebbie is Welsh and lives in Sussex.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Vanessa Gebbie
- 2011, 384 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408821567
- ISBN-13: 9781408821565
Sprache:
Englisch
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