Parenthesis: A New Generation in Short Fiction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954828070 ISBN 13: 9780954828073

Publisher: Comma Press, 2007

Synopsis

Twenty emerging British authors are featured in this anthology of short stories that celebrates imagination and daring in writing. The themes of these works push the limit of the traditional short story form and simultaneously offer isolated moments of truth. Characters range from world-smashing behemoths to role-playing plush toys to a man forced to reckon with a mysterious briefcase. Offering a snapshot of the next generation of British literature, this collection will amuse and astound.  

About this title

About the Author:

Ra Page is the editor of Bracket, The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories, and Leeds Stories, and is a former editor of Newcastle Stories magazine. He received a Jerwood Foundation Bursary for his own writing in 1999.

Review:

"Reasserts and cherishes the short story form's ingrained oddness, its unique kind of drama and its potential to surprise.”  —Independent on Sunday

“A treasure trove....From the first earth-shattering story ‘Testicular Cancer vs The Behemoth,’ in which terminal illness collides with a literally world-smashing monster, to the enigmatic ‘Road,’ where a man struggles for help with a mysterious briefcase, this book is a true rarity.”  —Aethetica Magazine

"Takes readers on nail-biting adventures... vital and imaginative."  —Big Issue

About this edition

• Publisher: Comma Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0954828070
• ISBN 13: 9780954828073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Page Ra