Dressing-Up Box, The
David Constantine
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Comma Press
Published: 25th Jun '20
£9.99
The fifth collection by award-winning writer David Constantine followers characters who are all in pursuit of sanctuary; the violence and mendacity of the outside world presses in from all sides – be it the ritualised brutality suffered by children at a Catholic orphanage, or the harrowing videos shared among refugees of an atrocity ‘back home’.
SKU: 9781912697304
Categories: Modern and contemporary fiction, Short storiesDescription
The characters in David Constantine’s fifth collection are all in pursuit of sanctuary; the violence and mendacity of the outside world presses in from all sides – be it the ritualised brutality suffered by children at a Catholic orphanage, or the harrowing videos shared among refugees of an atrocity ‘back home’. In each case, the characters withdraw into themselves, sometimes abandoning language altogether, until something breaks and they can retreat no further. In Constantine’s luminous prose, these stories capture such moments in all their clarity; moments when an entire life seems to hang in the balance, the past’s betrayals exposed, its ghosts dragged out into the daylight; moments in which the possibility of defiance and redemption is everything.
Additional information
Dimensions | 128 × 198 mm |
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Page Count | 256 |
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