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Fates of the Animals
Padrika Tarrant
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Description for Fates of the Animals
Paperback. By turns tender and unsettling, these stories lurk at the city's tattered edges, where the pigeons cry for the pain of the world; where Satan's daughter wants to die of love and the angels keep nicking God's fags. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 128.
Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Songs of the drowned and a dog with wings... The world was a grey place once, concrete grey and striped with grey; clay against stone. The pigeons stretched out their scrawny lives and lived as creatures must. Yet they were not hateful birds. They wore their poverty like overcoats; they sat upon the highest places and drizzled the whole world with their compassion. Their souls were dignified as tarnished spoons; pigeons bore witness to the sadness and the tearing of the wind. ... Read more
Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Songs of the drowned and a dog with wings... The world was a grey place once, concrete grey and striped with grey; clay against stone. The pigeons stretched out their scrawny lives and lived as creatures must. Yet they were not hateful birds. They wore their poverty like overcoats; they sat upon the highest places and drizzled the whole world with their compassion. Their souls were dignified as tarnished spoons; pigeons bore witness to the sadness and the tearing of the wind. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Salt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907773587
SKU
V9781907773587
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-30
About Padrika Tarrant
Padrika Tarrant was born in 1974. She read sculpture at Norwich School of Art, where she developed an unhealthy fixation with scissors and the animator Jan Svankmajer. Fates of the Animals is her third book, following Broken Things (Salt 2007) and The Knife Drawer (Salt 2011). She lives in Norwich with her beautiful daughter and some lovely stuffed animals. She ... Read more
Reviews for Fates of the Animals
Tarrant's book of stories claps in blacked rooms, has a smile as wide as the Ripper's blade, prowls in midnight back alleys until the threadbare structure of the world's bones has some meat. It's not jaded, it has wonder, she would stop to gain knowledge of leaves ballet dancing down in a purple sky, and that's a rarity nowadays in ... Read more