Medals and Prizes

John Metcalf author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:And Other Stories

Published:24th Nov '20

£11.99

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Medals and Prizes brings together eight of the best stories and novellas by John Metcalf, a virtuosic champion of the short form. Metcalf was born in Carlisle and emigrated to Canada as a young man, where both his innovations as a prose stylist and his talent as an editor are legendary. Until now, he has never been published in Britain. Spanning more than fifty years, and ranging from some of his earliest published stories to the astonishing late-career ‘Medals and Prizes’, the work gathered here shows us a writer whose voice, at every stage, is unmistakeable. Entertaining and moving and mischievous, these elegant fictions are a homecoming for a writer ready to assume his rank among Britain's great short fiction masters.

'Generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.' Washington Post ---- 'Hilarious, touching and delightful . . . brilliant concision and understated humor.' Los Angeles Times ----'One of Canada's best kept literary secrets.' Harper's Magazine ----'Metcalf has an abiding reputation as one of the finest prose stylists in contemporary Canada . . . The collections of his short stories are often regarded as his best work.' The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English

ISBN: 9781911508960

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350 pages