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Title: |
The Tiger & Other Tales |
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| By (author): |
Jack Foley |
| ISBN10-13: |
1944697136 : 9781944697136 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
230x155mm |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Weight: |
.264 Kg. |
| Published: |
Sagging Meniscus Press - December 2016 |
| List Price: |
12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 7 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Jack Foley's autobiography begins, "What is a life but stories?" The stories collected here are not his life but a fantastic consciousness in which he is as lost as anyone. Foley writes what he does not know; he writes what he can imagine. The dead sprout up here as easily as leaves of grass. Stylistically the stories range widely -- some are comic, some bring tears. All manifest "the strangeness and the power of poetry", plunging us into the enigma of the human heart. |
| Reviews: |
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"Jack Foley continues to grow and surprise. Add to his accomplishments in poetry, criticism, literary scholarship, and radio promotion of poetry and poets, this small, brilliant collection of tales, short plays and occasional prose pieces. Foley’s unique combination of insight, originality, erudition, and
humanity, combined with a hitherto unsuspected flair for story-telling, are in full display here -- from a bittersweet faux Irish fable to a tongue-only-partly-in-cheek apologia for the Australian literary hoax ‘Ern Malley’ (the intellectual’s J T Leroy), from a purgatorial comedy of family manners to a Shavian satire full of pith ‘and vinegar,’ set in Hell and starring the Devil and G B Shaw himself, to the collection’s eponymous masterpiece, an arabesque from a 21st century Scheherazade. The book is a bracing pleasure.” -- Christopher Bernard, author of "Voyage to a Phantom City", "A Spy in the Ruins", "Dangerous Stories for Boys", "In the American Night" & "The Rose Shipwreck".
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