
Closure
Contemporary Black British Short Stories
Jacob Ross(Editor)
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Published on 28. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-1-84523-288-7 (ISBN)
Description
From well-known and award-winning authors--including Bernardine Evaristo, Fred D'Aguiar, and Leone Ross--to previous unpublished writers, this ambitious and intriguing anthology of short stories showcases each author's most challenging work. These works from writers who are happy to describe themselves as Black British, have a rich variety of styles, forms, and themes, from raw realism, the erotic, and elegant economy, to the fanciful, humorous, and the tender. The contributors to Closure display a keen awareness of the short story form in all its contemporary possibilities as a way of telling and finding a form for the writer's vision. These are stories about the ways in which we do and do not love, unrequited yearnings, the quiet and often hidden violence in our lives, moments of epiphany, and the precious occasions of jubilation and uplift.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84523-288-7 (9781845232887)
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09/2016
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
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Jacob Ross is an associate editor at Peepal Tree Press and at SABLE LitMag. He is the author of two acclaimed short story collections, Song for Simone and A Way to Catch the Dust and the novel Pynter Bender, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and was named book of the year by Caribbean Review of Books.