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The Redemption of Galen Pike: And Other Stories
Carys Davies
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Description for The Redemption of Galen Pike: And Other Stories
Paperback. The seventeen stories in The Redemption of Galen Pike are about how little we ever know of other people and the unpredictable bonds that spring up between us when our worlds collide. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Winner of the 2015 International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award Winner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: Fiction Shortlisted for the 2015 Edge Hill Short Story Prize The Globe 100: The Best International Fiction of 2017 In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change her life. At a jubilee celebration in a northern English town a middle-aged alderman opens his heart to Queen Victoria. A teenage daughter leaves home in search of adventure. High in the Cumbrian fells a woman seeks help from her father's enemy. Spare, precise, charged with a prickly wit, the stories in Carys Davies's sparkling second collection remind us how little we know of the lives of others.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907773716
SKU
V9781907773716
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Ref
99-7
About Carys Davies
Carys Davies was the winner of the the 2010 Society of Authors' Olive Cook Short Story Award, the 2011 Royal Society of Literature's V S Pritchett Memorial Prize, and a 2013 Northern Writers' Award. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for many other prizes including the Calvino Prize, the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Roland Mathias Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the Wales Book of the Year and the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen Prize. Born in Wales, she now lives in Lancaster.
Reviews for The Redemption of Galen Pike: And Other Stories
It's little wonder that Davies was winner of the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, a prize previously given to the likes of Yiyun Li, Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami and Edna O'Brien. The Redemption of Galen Pike is a stunning achievement, and Carys Davies a writer to celebrate.
Stephen Finucan
The Star
This sophisticated collection observes that everyone contains multitudes, and people's darkest corners are what make them interesting. The book never falters in its delicate touch and confident, nuanced observations about the human condition.
Publishers Weekly
One of the things that I loved so much about The Redemption of Galen Pike is one of the things that makes it incredibly difficult to write about - the scope of these stories in both time and place are epic... It is simply a stunning collection of stories.
Simon Savidge
Savidge Reads
Her collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, is published by the small UK independent press Salt. Its subjects span the world, with stories set everywhere from a remote Australian settlement, where a young wife has a secret, to a Colorado jail, where a Quaker woman meets a condemned man in his final hours in the title story.
Alison Flood
The Guardian
This book is so wonderful! It's fantastic.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Read It Forward!
This delicate, magical collection won the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Stories and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and it's easy to see why. They are precise but full of beautifully observed details that fill compact vignettes with incident and emotion.
Charlotte Heathcote
Daily Express
Confirms beyond doubt her position among the finest British exponents of a particularly challenging form.
The Irish Examiner
Outstanding...perfectly distilled, intense...exquisite.
The Yorkshire Post
Karen E Bender, Carys Davies, Tony Earley, Kirsty Gunn and Alejandro Zambra on shortlist for world's richest short story prize ... Jennifer Hamilton-Emery of Salt Publishing said: We were completely bowled over when we heard the news that Carys Davies' book, The Redemption of Galen Pike, had been shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor prize. It is, without doubt, the world's most prestigious prize for short stories and to have a book placed up there with the best collections internationally is something we've dreamt of for many years. We are delighted for Carys, it is a fantastic achievement, and delighted too that her book has received such recognition.
Martin Doyle
The Irish Times
This story of brutal murder and rough justice in the American Wild West carried a real punch. As if Mark Twain and Annie Proulx had sat down at a desk together. But an original voice too. I shall be looking out for more.
Piers Plowright Extraordinarily powerful
VS Pritchett Prize judges Jane Gardam, Penelope Lively and Jacob Ross on The Redemption of Galen Pike
Stephen Finucan
The Star
This sophisticated collection observes that everyone contains multitudes, and people's darkest corners are what make them interesting. The book never falters in its delicate touch and confident, nuanced observations about the human condition.
Publishers Weekly
One of the things that I loved so much about The Redemption of Galen Pike is one of the things that makes it incredibly difficult to write about - the scope of these stories in both time and place are epic... It is simply a stunning collection of stories.
Simon Savidge
Savidge Reads
Her collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, is published by the small UK independent press Salt. Its subjects span the world, with stories set everywhere from a remote Australian settlement, where a young wife has a secret, to a Colorado jail, where a Quaker woman meets a condemned man in his final hours in the title story.
Alison Flood
The Guardian
This book is so wonderful! It's fantastic.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Read It Forward!
This delicate, magical collection won the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Stories and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and it's easy to see why. They are precise but full of beautifully observed details that fill compact vignettes with incident and emotion.
Charlotte Heathcote
Daily Express
Confirms beyond doubt her position among the finest British exponents of a particularly challenging form.
The Irish Examiner
Outstanding...perfectly distilled, intense...exquisite.
The Yorkshire Post
Karen E Bender, Carys Davies, Tony Earley, Kirsty Gunn and Alejandro Zambra on shortlist for world's richest short story prize ... Jennifer Hamilton-Emery of Salt Publishing said: We were completely bowled over when we heard the news that Carys Davies' book, The Redemption of Galen Pike, had been shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor prize. It is, without doubt, the world's most prestigious prize for short stories and to have a book placed up there with the best collections internationally is something we've dreamt of for many years. We are delighted for Carys, it is a fantastic achievement, and delighted too that her book has received such recognition.
Martin Doyle
The Irish Times
This story of brutal murder and rough justice in the American Wild West carried a real punch. As if Mark Twain and Annie Proulx had sat down at a desk together. But an original voice too. I shall be looking out for more.
Piers Plowright Extraordinarily powerful
VS Pritchett Prize judges Jane Gardam, Penelope Lively and Jacob Ross on The Redemption of Galen Pike