This review has been revised. I felt it was too easy to criticise a writer on one piece of work with no ‘back-story’. I have done that and for me it didn’t get any better in fact…. Lionel Shriver – Killifi Creek I have now re-read the original short story and I have flicked through…
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Daily Short: Bernard MacLaverty – A Foreign Dignitary
In ‘Friendship: 12 masterpieces of short fiction’ for John McCarthy, Ryan Publishing Co. Ltd; First Edition edition (1990) Also collected in: “A Foreign Dignitary,in Best Short Stories 1989, edited by GilesGordon and David Hughes. 1989; as The Best English Short Stories 1989, 1989. Walking the Dog and Other Stories. 1994. A tricky one this. I have…
Daily Short: Ron Hansen- Playland – 1989
I had the idea of reading at least one short story a day. It sort of working and I have managed three so far this week. The first on Tuesday was Ron Hansen’s ‘Funland’ from ‘Nebraska’ a collection of short stories published in 1989. I purchased it at the time because of the cover which…