- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Profile Books (2 July 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846682592
- ISBN-13: 978-1846682599
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 177,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Wonderful stories,
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This review is from: Ox-Tales:Fire (Paperback)
These are wonderful stories, collected together to raise money for Oxfam. Highlights include Mark Haddon's The Island, a brilliant re-telling of the myth of Ariadne, and Jeanette Winterson's delightful Dog Days. The most impressive thing is that this book - and the other Ox-Tales collections - showcase the best in British writing, so as well as reading great stories by your favourite writers, you are bound to discover some fantastic writing from authors you might not already know. Get the set!
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A triumph, as The Observer says,
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Ox-Tales is a set of four beautiful designed, highly collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. The stories are compelling, and every book bought raises money for Oxfam. What's not to like? `Fire' has stories by Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks, John le Carré, Xiaoulu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver and Jeanette Winterson, and a poem by Vikram Seth. As The Observer says: "Ox-Tales is a triumph: four volumes of mostly outstanding fiction that would be worth reading whether or not an NGO was responsible for it... A remarkable number of Britain's top writers have contributed [so] these volumes, more than being simply a collection of short stories, act as a showcase for contemporary British fiction."
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Short story review,
This review is from: Ox-Tales:Fire (Paperback)
Ox-Tales Fire is an anthology of short stories written by the best writers today. Each individual story is an insightful, thoughtful, compelling, worthwhile read and the small publication makes it an ideal purchase to carry with you and peruse whilst on the bus or train.
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