- Paperback: 142 pages
- Publisher: Authors Online Ltd (8 Jun 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 075521238X
- ISBN-13: 978-0755212385
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 692,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Everyone feels something: Loss is painful, love is exquisite and even the very ordinary can experience miracles. But what is an ordinary life? What defines ordinary people? Hidden & Other Stories is a collection of tales exploring how the average person shapes their world and the daily twists and turns that are the extraordinariness of everyday living. "(To The New Year) is a moving and poignant little story about rediscovered love." Editor, ABCtales.com
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Usually do not read short stories, however really enjoyed this book. Raffle boy is a most.
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It's an awkward and difficult form, and Roberts is completely in control of the effects it can achieve - the time spent in the company of very different, often very difficult characters - their situations, their outlook, their place in life, but especially their view out and towards the 'life' that's generally swirling around them in careless and damagingly carefree ways. In her hands, the story tends to creep up on you, you are in a mind, and as the gloom slowly dissipates, you perceive clearly a life, a person you thought could never imagine being, but now are fully imagined within, the contours, shapes and feeling of that life clear, in sparse, carefully controlled detail.
And the endings? She controls her endings with clarity and economy - never the cheap, over-obvious reversal, but a sly dig, a ping back into the story that led up to it, a re-shaping or re-casting of the story in a subtly different light, giving a resonance beyond the end, causing the life to reverberate just a bit further and longer than you expected.
Of course there are some stories I didn't take to, some that left me cold, but more that left me slightly shaken, slightly disturbed from the main flow of 'life' as most of us live it. And that's where her characters come from - the edges, the margins, the lost and forgotten, and are the more powerful for that.
Highly recommended.
And the endings? She controls her endings with clarity and economy - never the cheap, over-obvious reversal, but a sly dig, a ping back into the story that led up to it, a re-shaping or re-casting of the story in a subtly different light, giving a resonance beyond the end, causing the life to reverberate just a bit further and longer than you expected.
Of course there are some stories I didn't take to, some that left me cold, but more that left me slightly shaken, slightly disturbed from the main flow of 'life' as most of us live it. And that's where her characters come from - the edges, the margins, the lost and forgotten, and are the more powerful for that.
Highly recommended.
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