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Words from a Glass Bubble (Salt Modern Fiction) (Hardcover)

by Vanessa Gebbie (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing (1 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844713997
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844713998
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 477,543 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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...enough good pieces in enough styles for the book to be used as an anthology demonstrating how stories should be written nowadays...


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sharp, smart and sad, 14 Mar 2008
By Mrs Gene Hunt (Somerset, UK) - See all my reviews
Vanessa Gebbie has won more prizes for her short stories than you can shake an HB pencil at, and this debut collection shows off the best of them. She tackles tough themes with originality, subtlety and shows a humungous tenderness towards humanity's most vulnerable. Her language is often poetic, calling to mind Dylan Thomas or John Banville.
Really, really worth investigating if you're a fan of original literature.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, 9 Nov 2008
By Ogden Gnash (London, UK) - See all my reviews
It's just a brilliant collection, from start to finish. It has a number of different moods that intertwine through the course of the book to create a marvellous smorgasbord of stories There are colourful epic tales, steady, mellow meditations, and shorter piquant and mordant interludes.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the finest collections available, 19 Jun 2009
By DJM King "david61751" (Australia) - See all my reviews
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I have admired Vanessa Gebbie's short stories since she first started to write fiction seriously, and it was no surprise to me when prestigious prizes and awards began to come her way. Many of the stories that won those accolades are included in this collection, and I urge anyone who enjoys good literary fiction to buy this book.
Gebbie has a gift for creating memorable, often quirky characters, and conjuring up the appropriate situation that will bring them out in a multi-layered, memorable story that conveys much more than the words on the page. Her stories can be poignant, funny, all things between but above all they are alive, as only character-based stories can be.
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