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Quartier perdu and other stories / Sean O.Brien.
Van Pelt Library PR6065.B744 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Brien, Sean, 1952- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, English.
- Genre:
- Short stories, English.
- Short stories.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 223 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Great Britain : Comma Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Sheltering from an air raid in an empty underground station, a young woman encounters a strangely out-of-place vessel passing along the platform... A librarian cataloguing the manuscripts of a recently deceased horror writer notices one particular box, relating to his most mystical work, has disappeared... A young academic takes up residency in the former home of an obscure Belgian poet in order to better understand the strange rumours surrounding his demise... Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I
- During an Air-Raid 1
- The Sea-God 13
- To See How Far It Is 31
- The Good Stuff 43
- Verney's Pit 55
- Change for Low Rixham 69
- II
- What She Wanted 81
- Ex Libris 91
- Story Time 109
- Swan, 1914 117
- Certain Measures 127
- Lovely 135
- III
- Quartier Perdu 145
- Keeping Count 157
- A Cold Spot 167
- Revenant 183
- A Green Shade 197
- The Aspen Grove 211.
- ISBN:
- 1905583702
- 9781905583706
- OCLC:
- 1043087963
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