In Another Country: Selected Stories - Softcover

Constantine, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905583761 ISBN 13: 9781905583768

Verlag: Comma Press, 2015

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'The most striking stories tend to share motifs while circling secret and unresolved situations: "The Necessary Strength" with its broken family in an idyllic setting; "Wishing Well" with the incoming tide as an imaginary threat; and "Tea at the Midland", a concise meditation on art's independence from morality' --Michael Caines, Times Literary Supplement

'...the chambers of life and death profoundly intertwined' --Financial Times

'David Constantine is one of Britain's most underrated writers (...) his balance of the lyrical and the sparse echoes John Williams, James Salter and John McGahern' --Huffington Post

Reseña del editor:

The stories of David Constantine are unlike any others. His characters possess you instantly, making you see the world as they do- sometimes as exiles, driven into isolation by convictions that even they don t fully understand; sometimes as carriers of an unspoken but unbearable weight. The things they pursue, or evade, are often unseen and at a distance- like the perfectly preserved body of a woman in the title story, waiting to be discovered in the receding ice of a Swiss glacier. These tokens of the past, or future, haunt Constantine s characters, but the landscapes that produce them also offer salvation, places of refuge or small treasures to take solace in- like the piece of driftwood a beachcomber chooses to carve into his idea of perfection.

Gathering together stories from over two decades of writing, this selection demonstrates why Constantine has been hailed as perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form . Their bewitching and urgent language is at one and the same time unsettling and strong enough to help .

Featuring the story, 'In Another Country', that inspired the motion picture, 45 Years. Also featuring selected stories from David Constantine's Comma Press back catalogue : Under The Dam (2005); The Shieling (2009); Tea at the Midland (2012).

45 Years had its UK release on Friday 28th August 2015 (Film4 / BFI) starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend , HBO s Looking).

Charlotte Rampling was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in 45 Years, a film based on a David Constantine short story.

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• Verlag: Comma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1905583761
• ISBN 13: 9781905583768
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224