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Our first foray into the printing short stories is a new collection from one of the UK’s most celebrated biographers, novelists and critics - and, as these stories show, a quite brilliant literary artist.
Wrote For Luck ranges from North Norfolk to Chicago, from sordid old antique dealers to glamorous young writers, from glorious local gossips to frustrated academics.These stories abound with gleeful absurdity, waspish humour, and awkward, exquisitely English conversations. But they are also rich in melancholy and the heady sadness of people struggling to find a place in the world. Some are fascinatingly strange; others are uncomfortably familiar. Some are simply hilarious - and all are touchingly human.
Praise For Wrote For Luck
“David Taylor has an eye for landscape and an ear for human foible. In Wrote for Luck he offers a precise survey of the psychogeography of our times, shrewdly mapping the both the inner and outer terrain. Meaning and pattern eludes his characters but not his reader, in these poised, witty, melancholy tales.”
Hilary Mantel
“Confirms Taylor's assurance as a chronicler of our times, setting the decline of cultural and social status and influence against the backdrop of rain-swept East Anglia. There is an almost Chekhovian undertow to this impressive and rewarding collection.”
'These short stories are sophisticated morsels of modern life, needle-sharp, and touchingly aware of the social subtext... Excellent.'
Kate Saunders, The Times
Kate Saunders, The Times
'Sharp and clever... Taylor has a great knack of pulling the reader in, and his endings, which spin out into rather mournful, very British epiphanies, linger long in the mind.'
“His eye for human sadness makes this a consistently superb collection.”
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Taylor proves that he is an acute commentator on contemporary manners.
Praise For D.J. Taylor
“A writer of formidable accomplishments.”
(Washington Post)
“Good short story writers are rarer than good novelists, which makes the appearance of one as good as Taylor all the more welcome.” (Allan Massie)
“Taylor is marking out a territory as distinct and disturbing as Graham Greene, with the same imperative towards moral inquisition and a flatlands melancholy that is all his own.” (Hilary Mantel)
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Pages:
205
Published:
December 2014
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