
Second-Hand Rain
Georgia Carys Williams(Author)
Parthian Books (Publisher)
Published on 29. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-909844-84-1 (ISBN)
Description
I am the laugh of a kookaburra. I am a currawong. I am a galah. I am a lyre because I am a lyrebird. I am a performer and I am superb. Dark, offbeat and haunting, from the bluest Venetian lagoon where a merwoman saves a drowning gondolier to a glass harmonica playing itself on a British tideline, this innovative and perceptive collection ripples with watery memories and poetic unease. Home is never the safe place as it snapshots families set apart by betrayal, illness or death: a phantom baby growing older, a granddaughter obsessively peeling tangerines, and a deaf sister conducting music in her sleep. Sadness loses its balance, then floats adrift as a litter picker finds secrets within her wasteland, nostalgia flowers in suburban gardens, and people vanish in the fog.
Reviews / Votes
'Intricate, touching and astonishingly imaginative - ' Stevie Davies 'Georgia Carys Williams' disquieting stories explore the strangeness of existence; its elemental substance, its "being and nothingness".' Jo Mazelis 'Edgy and dark, psychologically needling and vigorously inventive, Second-hand Rain marks the arrival of a singular voice in fiction.' Jon GowerMore details
Edition
UK ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-909844-84-1 (9781909844841)
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Person
Georgia Carys Williams was born in Swansea. She won third prize at the Terry Hetherington Award 2012, highly commended for The South Wales Short Story Competition 2012, was short-listed for the Swansea Life Young Writing Category of the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2008 and for the Wells Festival of Literature 2009. Whilst working on a PhD in Creative Writing at Swansea University, she writes for Wales Arts Review and was commissioned by the Rhys Davies Trust to contribute to WAR's fictional map of Wales series. Most recently, she was shortlisted for New Welsh Review's Flash in the Pen competition, published in Parthian's Rarebit Anthology.