- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: Apis Books (12 Dec 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955253837
- ISBN-13: 978-0955253836
- Product Dimensions: 2 x 1.3 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,562,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A stunning spectrum of contemporary writing --The Short Review
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With burning giraffes and rogue estate agents, macaroons and bathtub eels, plus healthy doses of love, sex and death, Tales of the DeCongested, Volume Two is an anthology of short stories representing the cream of hundreds of stories performed at the monthly live event. Among the three dozen tales in this volume are stories by Toby Litt, Rob Sears, Vanessa Gebbie, Kate Henderson and Daniel Jeffreys.
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This is a great book to buy if you love short stories. It's the second collection from the monthly short story readings at Foyles Bookshop in London, the 'best of the best' from the past two years. You don't have to be a Londoner to enjoy it (I'm not), as its subject matter ranges from jogging in New York to a car crash in New Zealand, from a surreal train ride in 50s France to the journey of a hospital ship from Africa in 1943.
Some stories surprise, some move and some just entertain. Some - as is always the case with anthologies - don't quite hit the mark, but by and large this collection has a very good hit rate.
My favourite stories - for what it's worth - come from Claire Munro in her cracking 'Freecycle', Emily Bromfield for 'One Way to Cook An Eel', Sara Hiorns for 'Perfect Size Nines' and Vanessa Gebbie for 'How Claude Romarin Lost the Buttocks of Celestine Bigorneaux'.
Enjoy it!
Some stories surprise, some move and some just entertain. Some - as is always the case with anthologies - don't quite hit the mark, but by and large this collection has a very good hit rate.
My favourite stories - for what it's worth - come from Claire Munro in her cracking 'Freecycle', Emily Bromfield for 'One Way to Cook An Eel', Sara Hiorns for 'Perfect Size Nines' and Vanessa Gebbie for 'How Claude Romarin Lost the Buttocks of Celestine Bigorneaux'.
Enjoy it!
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