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Paradise block / Alice Ash.
Van Pelt Library PR6102.S45 P37 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ash, Alice, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apartment dwellers--Fiction.
- Apartment dwellers.
- Neighbors--Fiction.
- Neighbors.
- Short stories, English.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories, English.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Serpent's Tail, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In Paradise Block, mould grows as thick as fur along the walls, alarms ring out at unexpected hours and none of the neighbours are quite what they seem. A little girl boils endless eggs in her family's burnt-out flat, an isolated old woman entices a new friend with gifts of cutlery and cufflinks, and a young bride grows frustrated with her unappreciative husband, the caretaker of creaking, dilapidated Paradise Block.With a haunting sense of place and a keen eye for the absurd, these thirteen surreal stories lure us into a topsy-turvy world where fleatraps are more important than babies and sales calls for luxury coffins provide a welcome distraction. Lonely residents live in close proximity while longing for connection."--Publisher.
- Contents:
- Eggs
- Planes
- The flea-trap
- You
- Timespeak
- Hungry
- Ball
- Complaint
- Doctor Sharpe
- Black, dark hill
- Sea God
- Bad elastic
- John's bride
- ISBN:
- 1788165543
- 9781788165549
- OCLC:
- 1182844567
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