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In Another Country : Selected Stories by David Constantine (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBiblioasis
ISBN-101771960175
ISBN-139781771960175
eBay Product ID (ePID)204230769
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn Another Country : Selected Stories
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Family Life, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorDavid Constantine
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-432219
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsPraise for In Another Country "The diverse characters [of In Another Country ] include ex-monks, shamed canons, prostitutes, squatters, successful businessmen, and university professors, but a common thread of silent suffering and dignity ties them all together. The tragic and the beautiful in each of their experiences is heightened by the author's impeccable eloquence and poetic imagery ... A brilliant selection."-- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review "[Constantine] has a remarkable ear for both poetic and common prose ... [H]is work is too beholden to the actual or possible to be classified as fantasy or allegory, but his stories plunge the reader so deeply into the boundary-less country of the human psyche that it feels wrong to describe them as examples of psychological realism ... That's one of the many messages embedded in the collection: that life is too messy, too mysterious and permeable, to fit into singular categories. It's not a new message, but it's rare to see it stated with such style and conviction." -- Toronto Star "[David Constantine's] world sometimes recalls those of Harold Pinter and Ian McEwan, in which the banal niceties of comfortable living--dinners, funerals for colleagues, business trips--seem to conceal great menace ... It's what goes unspoken in so many of these stories that seems so powerful ... An author who deserves serious consideration."-- Kirkus' Reviews "After reading David Constantine's story 'In Another Country' ... I can't figure out why a U.S. press hasn't caught on to his work ... Thankfully, Biblioasis will publish a selection of his stories next year." -- Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review "There are writers for whom place is a key component of authorial sensibility ... Joyce had Dublin; Faulkner and Twain had their respective portions of Mississippi. David Constantine ... refuse[s] to restrict [his] settings to background scenery, choosing instead to fully inhabit the place in which [his] stories unfold ... Constantine's artistic vision, like the land he takes as his setting, is bleak and rugged ... In [his] universe, art, love and death are never very far apart." -- The Globe and Mail "...[I]t's the precision of David Constantine's prose that gets you first. His descriptions, his dialogue--it's all so unnervingly exact, dropping you into scenes that are both immediately recognizable and profoundly unsettling." -- Beatrice "Set on islands and coasts, furnished with the 'silver ladders' of streams, featuring wishing wells and even a cursing well, the virtuoso stories of David Constantine's In Another Country pulse with the sounds and rhythms of water, rhythms that draw characters and readers alike into uncommon and exceptionally profound emotional depths." -- Laurie Greer, Politics and Prose Praise for David Constantine "Rich and allusive and unashamedly moving."-- The Independent "Spellbinding."-- The Irish Times "An uneasy blend of the exquisite and the everyday . . . the beatific, the ordinary, the rebarbative even, are almost indistinguishable . . . intelligent and well-turned."-- The Times Literary Supplement "Perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form."-- The Reader, Praise for In Another Country "The diverse characters [of In Another Country ] include ex-monks, shamed canons, prostitutes, squatters, successful businessmen, and university professors, but a common thread of silent suffering and dignity ties them all together. The tragic and the beautiful in each of their experiences is heightened by the author's impeccable eloquence and poetic imagery ... A brilliant selection."-- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review "[David Constantine's] world sometimes recalls those of Harold Pinter and Ian McEwan, in which the banal niceties of comfortable living--dinners, funerals for colleagues, business trips--seem to conceal great menace ... It's what goes unspoken in so many of these stories that seems so powerful ... An author who deserves serious consideration."-- Kirkus' Reviews Praise for David Constantine "Rich and allusive and unashamedly moving."-- The Independent "Spellbinding."-- The Irish Times "An uneasy blend of the exquisite and the everyday . . . the beatific, the ordinary, the rebarbative even, are almost indistinguishable . . . intelligent and well-turned."-- The Times Literary Supplement "Perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form."-- The Reader
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisNamed to Kirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015 Featuring the story adapted into the Academy Award nominated film, 45 YEARS "I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, read them all fast, and started re-reading them again and again. They are gripping tales, but what is startling is the quality of the writing. Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should be."--A.S. Byatt, The Guardian The first American publication by one of the greatest living fiction masters, In Another Country spans David Constantine's remarkable thirty-year career. Known for their pristine emotional clarity, their spare but intensely evocative dialogue, and their fearless exposures of the heart in moments of defiance, change, resistance, flight, isolation, and redemption, these stories demonstrate again and again Constantine's timeless and enduring appeal. David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and translator. His collections of poetry include The Pelt of Wasps , Something for the Ghosts (shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize), Nine Fathom Deep , and Elder . He is the author of one novel, Davies , and has published four collections of short stories in the United Kingdom, including the winner of the 2013 Frank O'Connor Award, Tea at the Midland and Other Stories . He lives in Oxford, where, until 2012, he edited Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.
LC Classification NumberPR6053.O513A63 2015
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