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| August
2005 |
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| Jigs
and Reels |
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| by Joanne Harris | ||
| Take
your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing
monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and
middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two
short stories from the author of HOLY FOOLS and FIVE QUARTERS OF
THE ORANGE, the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the
sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive
and the disturbing are never more than one step away. JIGS &
REELS is Joanne Harris' first collection of short stories, As she
says in her Foreword, a good short story can startle, ignite, and
illuminate...giving you vivid, anarchlc glimpses into different
world, different people. Here, she proves she is as good as her
word by creating an eclectic selection of tales for our times that
will delight, surprise, entertain and horrify in equal measure.
Sly, funny, sometimes provocative but always personal, JIGS &
REELS shows a side to Joanne Harris you have never seen before.
So go on, be tempted. After all, it's only dancing. |
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| Discussed
at Ivy Tower Farm on 18 August |
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Find
an extract from this book in the FILES section of SFBC
ONLINE |
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| Gay |
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A book of short stories, the themes of which range from the humorous to the sad, the past to the future and the familiar to the unknown. All are thought provoking and most have a twist in the ‘tale’. Joanne Harris’ style of writing is such that her books are easy to read and, although opinion was once again divided, the majority found this book to be a good read. |
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