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The Goblin Child by Michael Forester
Michael Forester's award winning short stories and flash fiction range from fantasy to young love and old fear, Gay & Lesbian to spirituality & religion, metaphor to morals to literary fiction. Always these powerful, highly original tales are gripping and readable, stories that surprise, illuminate engage and enrich. -A man who remembers his birth in terrifying detail -A woman who is certain she has given birth to a goblin child -A child who takes his god to school for show and tell -A youth who prefers his revenge served cold -A teenage girl who, due to her love of nature, falls under the spell of a sexual predator -A priest confronted by a man who believe he is Santa Clause -A worker in a care home who is never permitted to leave -A man who sees the purpose of his life only after he dies -A dying poet who searches desperately for the interracial love of his youth In this apparently unconnected and eclectic group of tales, Michael Forester explores the circularity of our lives. The collection culminates unexpectedly in the story of a dying poet who finds, then loses, interracial love in a racist age, and discovers with TS Eliot that he 'arrives where he began, to know the place for the first time.' In so doing Forester reveals to us the circularity of our lives and that the events in them, so independent, so seemingly random, are truly interdependent, connected, planned.
Some are born with silver spoons in their mouths. Michael Forester was born with a pen in his hand. Of course, it was immediately pinched by his big brother who put it on a shelf too high for him to reach. He got his own back though. He nicked his brother's abacus and hid behind the sofa with it. By the time he was 30 he was finally tall enough to reach the shelf, and took down the pen. This induced a bout of split personality disorder in which he oscillated between pillaging the stock market and writing books teaching others how to make incalculably vast sums of money (one was called Going for Growth and the other, How to Make More Profit). Unfortunately, they didn't make incalculably vast sums of money themselves... The millennium year saw a complete volte-face in which he determined to devote his life to poetry, fiction and life writing. The first result was If It Wasn't For That Dog, about his first year with his beloved hearing dog, Matt. (Michael has been severely deafened from the age of 30). Short stories followed on subjects ranging from goblins and dryads to inter-racial love in a racist age, marital breakdown to bureaucracy, nursery rhymes to Alzheimer's disease. Not far behind came poetry from haiku to epic fantasy poems and New Age mind-body-spirit writings on subjects as diverse as self-worth and the nature of physical death. In 2009 he won first prize at the Winchester Writer's Festival in the 'Writing can be Murder' category. He has been short/longlisted three times in the Fish Writing Contest.Eventually Michael felt ready to start his first novel, Vicious, a story of Punk Rock, reincarnation and the second coming of the Messiah. It took six years to complete the manuscript which passed through five drafts and was showcased by The Literary Consultancy in November 2015. It was followed by its sequel, 'Daughter of Man.' Both volumes await publication while Michael works on the third and final volume of the trilogy, 'If The Dead Be Not Raised' Now at the venerable age of 60 (deep respect, master, deep respect) Michael divides his time between Tenerife and the UK. He numbers dryads and angels amongst his closet friends. His children look on aghast as he squanders their inheritance on such profligacies as A4 printing paper and laser toner cartridges.They need have no concern. He plans to leave them the pen.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780995524804 |
| ISBN 10 | 0995524807 |
| Titel | The Goblin Child |
| Autor | Michael Forester |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Paralight Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-10-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 220 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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