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The Travellers and Other Stories (Some New Ambush; The Redemption of Galen Pike)

Name: The Travellers and Other Stories (Some New Ambush; The Redemption of Galen Pike)
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ISBN: 9781922253422

Davies, Carys

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Carys Davies� short story collections Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike (winner of the 2015 Frank O�Connor Award), now published in a single volume. In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. On a red island in a rose-coloured sea, russet-haired women dream of a fisherman with hair black as night. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins visit a women�s asylum, and the course of literary history is changed forever. Spare, precise and charged with wit, these award-winning stories are set in places near, far and imaginary. Carys Davies takes us to a world where the lines between reality and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, madness and sanity begin to dissolve. Combining two collections� Some New Ambush and Frank O�Connor Award-winner The Redemption of Galen...

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2022

Publisher:

The Text Publishing Company

Language:

English

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1922253421

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9781922253422