Don't Try This at Home
Published on 5. May 2015
176 pages
978-1-908276-53-7 (ISBN)
Description
A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her 'other half' multiplies, she is still not satisfied. Love transforms a mother working down the chippie - into Elvis. Clary's father puts antlers on stuffed rabbits to make jackalopes, but when her mother walks out on them, Clary has to help her father if they are to survive. Beautiful, sharp and fearless, Costa Short Story Award winner Angela Readman's debut collection is aptly titled, for each story packs its share of explosive material. Exposing all kinds of prejudice - against age, status, disability - the stories also offer quirky new strategies for troubled lives. If Angela Carter is Readman's fairy godmother, then David Lynch is her wicked stepbrother. Don't say you weren't warned . . .
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Language
English
Place of publication
High Wycombe
United Kingdom
File size
0,95 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-908276-53-7 (9781908276537)
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Angela Readman's stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, winning awards such as the Inkspill Magazine Short Story Competition and the National Flash Fiction Competition. In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award for 'Don't Try This at Home' - an award she would go on to win in 2013 with the story 'The Keeper of the Jackalopes'. Readman is also a published poet.
Content
- Intro
- Don't Try This at Home
- Conceptual
- Surviving Sainthood
- There's a Woman Works Down the Chip Shop
- Birds Without Wings
- Shine On
- When We Were Witches
- Everywhere You Don't Want to Be
- Dog Years
- The Keeper of the Jackalopes
- Catwoman Had Something
- Boys Like Dolls
- Subscribers
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Current and Upcoming Books
- Note to the Reader
- Author's Acknowledgements
