These stories observe how people live through moments of realisation; how they negotiate the avenues of loss, with cowardice and courage and a fair amount of bewilderment.
While fishing on a sunny loch, a woman is suddenly convinced and terrified that her lover is about to leave her. Parents in San Francisco learn that their son has been in a car accident, and may be dying. A girl loses her virginity the same day as the funeral of her much despised mother, and later understands which is the greater loss.
Humour threads through these dark moments and days. Even death especially death is not exempt. And love is perfectly heaving with embarrassing poignancy. These are warm stories about real people. Loss changes them, but change makes them feel alive.
Recenzijas
A Dangerous Place is an intensely felt and movingly rendered story. A worthy prize winner. -- Bernard MacLaverty Her writing has a lovely spirit to it; an appealing mixture of the spiky and the warm. -- Michel Faber Rogerson has an ability to inhabit all her characters convincingly. She sketches them with just the right amount of detail, chooses just the right aspects to emphasise. -- Scotland on Sunday Cynthia Rogerson is a new writer of great clarity and humanity definitely one to watch. -- AL Kennedy
Papildus informācija
Long-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2013 (UK).
ACCIDENT
A Dangerous Place
The Etiquette of Accidents
Homesick
Rubbish Day
ELISABETH
The Bear
Room
Enough Room
Home on the Road
Sam the Man
Summer
JACK AND MILDRED
Wait for Me, Jack
Stepping Out
Wine Tasting
First
FRANK AND MARTHA
The World and Things in It
To Dance
The Truth about Roller Coasters
The Purpose of Photographs
TRUE STORIES
Like Singing
Belated Love Letter from a Famous Writer
Persephones Passion
Hermans Night Out
Christophers Room
ALONE
My Favourite Things
In Abeyance
The Top Field
The Long Missing
LOVE
Begin
Ten OClock Trim
Bus Stop
A Good Wife
Instead of Beauty
Fly
Acknowledgments
Credits
Cynthia has published three novels, most recently I Love You, Goodbye (Black & White). Her short stories have been widely anthologised and broadcast on radio. She won the V.S. Pritchett Prize in 2008 and is a Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Author, regularly appearing at festivals across the country.
