Three Types of Solitude (Faber Stories) by Brian Aldiss
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Brian Aldiss, who died in 2017, was best known for his science fiction - and in particular for a short story optioned by Stanley Kubrick, which would, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, become the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Aldiss's first book was published by Faber in 1955. This brief, la ...Show more
Daughters of Passion (Faber Stories) by J. O'FAOLAIN
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. Brought up by nuns, she had lost her faith, found another, fought for it and been imprisoned. This was inexact but serviceable. On the twelfth day of her hunger strike, Maggy is unable to tell the difference between what is real an ...Show more
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (Faber Stories) by Thom Jones
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
He met Liston's gaze but found it almost impossible to sustain eye contact. Soon it became an exercise in the control of fear. Sonny Liston gave Kid Dynamite the slightest hint of a smile and winked. In the build-up to a fight, Kid Dynamite's head swirls - with thoughts of his estranged father, his diff ...Show more
Elegy for Easterly (Faber Stories) by P. GAPPAH
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be dest ...Show more
The Forester's Daughter: Faber Stories by Claire Keegan
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog will break her daughter's heart, she's sure of it. Claire Keegan's mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victo ...Show more
Country Funeral (Faber Stories) by John McGahern
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
"My only concern," John McGahern once said, "is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply." 'The Country Funeral' witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog - the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern's st ...Show more
River in Egypt (Faber Stories) by D. MEANS
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the sweat chamber', where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis. Cavanaugh has brought distractions - spasmodic action figures, malformed t ...Show more
Mrs Fox (Faber Stories) by Sarah Hall
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.' In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he ...Show more
Terrific Mother (Faber Stories) by Lorrie Moore
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is A ...Show more
Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Faber Stories) by ALAN BENNETT
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer. "I didn't know you were interested in football," said Betty.' No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the ...Show more
The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl pla ...Show more
Inner Room (Faber Stories) by Robert Aickman
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his strange stories, Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life. Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncan ...Show more