Chemistry and Other Stories
by Tim Pears
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Pub Date 24 Jun 2021 | Archive Date 24 Jun 2021
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) | Bloomsbury Publishing
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Description
A wife compulsively digs in her garden. Two brothers, long estranged, reunite for a terse, heady summer. A woman flies to Krakow to see her adult son. At dusk, a teenage girl pushes her dying mother out into the sea. A small boy sits on his own in the cinema, entranced by the cowboys who light up the screen.
With these short stories, Tim Pears illuminates a series of blazing moments in quiet lives – the tragic, strange, funny and beautiful fragments that make and unmake us – and shines a light into the gulfs that lie between us and those who should know us best.
Advance Praise
'Goodness, Tim Pears writes beautifully … the descriptions of rural life, executed with painterly exactness, are a constant delight. The prose really sings' - Mail on Sunday
'This is it. This is the real thing. This is whatever I mean by the work of a born writer … Comic and wry and elegiac and shrewd and thoughtful all at once. Please read it' - A S Byatt
'Tim Pears deserves a place among the best rural writers … An exemplary historical novelist with a Romantic eye for nature ... This heady walk through the forgotten lanes of England thrums with life' - The Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781526623379 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
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