Scablands and Other Stories
€14.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781784632946 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dr Jonathan Taylor |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.144 |
| Publishing Date | 15/07/2023 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.06 |
| Tax | €0.84 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.90 |
| Availability | 6 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
These are tales from the post-industrial scablands – stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma. A teacher obsessively canes himself. A neurologist forgets where home is. A starving woman sells hugs in an abandoned kiosk. Yet sometimes, even in the twilit scablands, there’s also beauty, music, laughter. Sometimes a town square is filled with bubbles. Sometimes sisters dream they can fly. Sometimes an old man plays Bach to an empty street, two ailing actors see animal shapes in clouds, a cancer survivor searches for a winning lottery ticket in her rundown flat. And sometimes Gustav Mahler lives just round the corner, hoarding rare records in a Stoke terrace.