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Settling the World: Selected Stories... by M. John Harrison Paperback / softback
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- 1912697289
- EAN
- 9781912697281
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- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Settling the World: Selected Stories 1970-2020
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- M. John Harrison
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- Book Title
- Settling the World : Selected Stories
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- Comma Press
- Item Length
- 7.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies
- Item Weight
- 9.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Throughout his career, M. John Harrison's writing has defied categorisation, building worlds both unreal and all-too real, overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with fissures and portals into parallel dimensions, unidentified countries and lost lands. But more important than the places they point to are the obsessions that drive the people who so believe in them, characters who spend their lives hunting for, and haunted by, clues and maps that speak to the possibility of somewhere else. This selection of stories, drawn from 50 years of writing, bears witness to that desire for difference: whether following backstreet occultists, amateur philosophers, down-and-outs or refugees, we see our relationship with 'the other' in microscopic detail, and share in Harrison's rejection of the idea that the world, or our understanding of it, could ever be settled.
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Comma Press
ISBN-10
1912697289
ISBN-13
9781912697281
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Book Title
Settling the World : Selected Stories
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.3 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5 in
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Dewey Edition
23
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'Harrison draws out his ghostly characters from behind the bones of the plot, allowing their stories to be emotional, poignant and disquietingly possible...' --Lamorna Ash, The Times Literary Supplement (£), '[A] quiet giant of British writing... extraordinarily flexible prose. It's restrained and luminous' -- The Daily Telegraph, 'The exactness, acute self-consciousness and vigilant self-restraint of Harrison's writing give it piercing authenticity.' --Ursula K. Le Guin, 'His novels have been likened to J.G. Ballard's, but these stories are more like satirical set pieces than brooding psycho-fictions: genial and generous, finding wry mirth in absurdity.' --Houman Barekat, The Spectator, 'In the far-distant future, when hyper-intelligent scorpions are looking back on the culture of the upright apes that once cluttered this planet, I think they will be frankly bemused that Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, that Ian McEwan won the Man Booker Prize, that Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer and yet all the time M John Harrison was staring them in the face.' --Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman, 'A new book by M. John Harrison in an event. The recurring idea in many of the stories is the need for escape, and the impossibility of it... In other hands, this might come across as cynical or hectoring, but Harrison is far too subtle a writer for that. There is genuine sorrow here... and genuine anger too...' -- The New Scientist
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2020-438890
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Lc Classification Number
Pr6058.A6942a6 2020
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