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The ghost who bled / Gregory Norminton.
Van Pelt Library PR6114.O76 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norminton, Greg, 1976- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, English.
- Genre:
- Short stories, English.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Manchester] : Comma Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- A simple act of gallantry in the Malaysian jungle spawns a lifelong feud in the Home Counties... A fading actor with a terminal illness devises a meticulous plan to leave the stage in style... A pregnant composer contemplates motherhood at the end of civilization... Spanning centuries and continents, the stories in this collection amount to a tour de force of literary worldbuilding. From deeply insecure time travellers to medieval mystics and futuristic body modification cults, Norminton's characters find themselves torn between conflicting impulses - temptation and fortitude, hubris and shame, longing and regret. By turns sad, strange and darkly comic, The Ghost Who Bled reveals a master storyteller of incredible range. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Poison Tree 1
- Fall Caesar 9
- Zero + 30 17
- In Refugium 33
- The Ghost Who Bled 55
- The Soul Surgeons 67
- Confessions of a Tyrant's Double 81
- Writers' Retreat 97
- In My Father's Garden 115
- Bottleneck 131
- The Modification of Eugene Berenger 145
- The Hermit of Athos 159
- The Time Traveller's Breakdown 169
- The Halt 177.
- ISBN:
- 9781905583560
- 1905583567
- OCLC:
- 987058768
- Publisher Number:
- 99975063686
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