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Stories from other places
- Title
- Stories from other places / Nicholas Shakespeare.
- Author
- Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-
- Publication
- London Harvill Secker , [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-4203 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 277 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the little-known history of horrifying events that occurred on 1 January 1915 in the Australian outback town of Broken Hill, where, on the citizens' annual picnic outing, the only enemy attack to occur on Australian soil during the First World War, took them by surprise. The other stories range through India, Africa, Argentina and Canada, and include a magnificent tale of civic folly which sees an unreliable young councillor from the Bolivian mining town of Oruro lose himself in the seductions of Paris while trying to commission a bronze statue of his local hero. All of them showcase Shakespeare's talent for insight and drama, and his fascination with connection and disconnection and cultural misunderstanding.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Oddfellows -- the white hole of Bombay -- The princess of the Pampas -- Freshwater fishing -- The death of Marat -- the Castle Morton Jerry -- The statue -- The orange-bellied parrot.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-4203
- ISBN
- 9781846559747 (hardback)
- 184655974X (hardback)
- OCLC
- 917296037
- Author
- Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957- author.
- Title
- Stories from other places / Nicholas Shakespeare.
- Publisher
- London Harvill Secker , [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-4203