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The China Factory
Mary Costello
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Description for The China Factory
Paperback. Features twelve stories, in which, an elderly school teacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever; a young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife; and a teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 124.
An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever. A young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife. A teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor.
In these twelve haunting stories award-winning writer Mary Costello examines the passions and perils of everyday life with startling insight, casting a light into the darkest corners of the human heart.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782116011
SKU
V9781782116011
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Ref
99-99
About Mary Costello
Mary Costello lives in Galway. Her short story collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish Novel of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards and was named overall Irish Book of the Year. It was serialised on ... Read more
Reviews for The China Factory
This is a writer unafraid of the graveside, or the bedside, of filling the space of the story to the brim. Large events happen in small lives . . . Her writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand . . . With a bit of luck, they could keep her at the desk for the rest ... Read more