Mr Jolly
'Mr Jolly' is the first collection of short stories by Michael Stewart, and contains some of the award-winning novelist's most extraordinary writing to date. Each tale offers a unique, utterly compelling insight into the human condition, framed by a mind-bendingly original concept that no other writer working today could - or indeed would - have concocted.Readers will meet a conformity-obsessed league of bald men, breaking into homes for an extended debate about the nature of freedom; discuss the nomenclature of the marshmallow with a man whose interest in them goes beyond the norm; and meet God, in perhaps the most frustratingly accurate dep…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-908853-60-8
- EAN: 9781908853608
- Produktnummer: 18948718
- Verlag: Valley Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D0.8 cm 178 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 178
Über den Autor
Michael Stewart was born in Salford in 1971, and now lives in Bradford. He is head of Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of three novels, including King Crow, winner of the 2011 Not the Booker Prize, Café Assassin and Ill Will, as well as a collection of short stories, Mr Jolly, which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2017. He has also written several audio dramas for BBC Radio 4, and other scripts for stage and screen. Find him on Twitter @headspam.
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