Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Means of Escape
A Set of Stories
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Initial publish date
- Aug 1993
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550541083
- Publish Date
- Aug 1993
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
A need for place. A search for peace. a ceaseless quest, balanced by occasional respite -- physical,psychological or metaphysical. These are the preoccupations of our time, and they are fertile ground for the taut incisive prose of an accomplished writer. With Means of Escape, internationally acclaimed anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Hugh Brody makes a brilliant fiction debut.
About the author
Hugh Brody is a writer and filmmaker. He is the author of Indians on Skid Row, Inishkillane: Change and Decline in the West of Ireland, The People's Land, Living Arctic and, with Michael Ignatieff, of 1919.
Editorial Reviews
"I recommend these tales to all connoisseurs fo the short story, for they are unique in flavour and style, altogether unusual, and will stay in my memory like elegiac and lyrical songs or poems. Beautiful."
Doris Lessing
"Intense, deeply felt, charged fiction...A masterful accomplishment"
M. T. Kelly
"Brody compels you to witness the havoc that emotional damage wreaks, compellingly, movingly, with no quarter given."
Sunday Times