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Description for Doppelgangers
Paperback. In these slippery stories the truth and the possible weave as unexpected lives, complicated minds and exotic spaces are sketched in with nimble words and quick wit. Ghosts torment from the past; future selves write back; the lost look about, find themselves watched, are lead astray. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 202 x 21. Weight in Grams: 206.
Twelve-ish. Shade in the Murillo gardens, as satisfying as lemonade. In the heat, just for a moment, Miguel stood in front of me. The old Miguel, not the one we've got now. The fuzzy image held its hand out and led me to the old Arab wall. When we were first married, we tried to climb it in the middle of the night. A celebration. 'This wall's been here hundreds of years,' Miguel said. 'If we can conquer that, we can conquer anything.' I believed him. I open my eyes and he's gone. In these slippery stories the truth ... Read more
Twelve-ish. Shade in the Murillo gardens, as satisfying as lemonade. In the heat, just for a moment, Miguel stood in front of me. The old Miguel, not the one we've got now. The fuzzy image held its hand out and led me to the old Arab wall. When we were first married, we tried to climb it in the middle of the night. A celebration. 'This wall's been here hundreds of years,' Miguel said. 'If we can conquer that, we can conquer anything.' I believed him. I open my eyes and he's gone. In these slippery stories the truth ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910409688
SKU
V9781910409688
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-30
About Mark Blayney
Mark Blayney won the Somerset Maugham Prize for Two Kinds of Silence. His story 'The Murder of Dylan Thomas' was a Seren Short Story of the Month and he's published poems and stories in Agenda, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter's House, The London Magazine and the delinquent. His second book Conversations with Magic Stones was described by John Bayley as 'remarkable... ... Read more
Reviews for Doppelgangers
'A perceptive storyteller of real promise'
Beryl Bainbridge 'An audacious imagination and stylistic brio...full of surprises, it is a fine collection'
D. M. Thomas 'These highly entertaining stories intrigue, amuse, surprise and unsettle all at once...with a confidence and verve that make this collection a cracking good read'
Lindsay Clarke 'Mark Blayney is a visionary'
Victor Pemberton
Beryl Bainbridge 'An audacious imagination and stylistic brio...full of surprises, it is a fine collection'
D. M. Thomas 'These highly entertaining stories intrigue, amuse, surprise and unsettle all at once...with a confidence and verve that make this collection a cracking good read'
Lindsay Clarke 'Mark Blayney is a visionary'
Victor Pemberton