Jigs & Reels (A)
A book of short stories from the author of CHOCOLAT Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two short stories from the author of HOLY FOOLS and FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE, the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive and the disturbing are never more than one step away. JIGS & REELS is Joanne Harris` first collection of short stories. As she says in her Foreword, a good short story can startle, ignite, and you vivid, anarchic glimpses into different world, different people. Here, she proves she is as...
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011