Posthumous Stories by David Rose
Explores a range of lives: from a road crew installing speed humps, a divorced man living rough, and a childless children's entertainer, to the son of a famous artist, the dedicatee of a violin concerto, and an honorary member of the Beatles.
English author David Rose has an underground reputation for sly invention and the stories here wrong-foot you from the title onwards - Rose is alive and well in his sixtiesHe calls his foreword Afterword and subtitles one story A Novel. There's a tale assembled from lines out of Kafka and another that takes the form of a Borges-like commentary on a fictitious novel, with excerpts. The prevailing mood is semi-Dystopian, with the standout piece describing an eco-activist who graduates from prankish PR stunts to more lethal action. Edgy, erudite, full of multilingual puns and allusions to art and classical music, this is the work of a writer following his own instincts rather than those of a marketing team. You can see why he's loved but also why he's not better known. -- Anthony Cummins Metro David Rose is one of the more hidden treasures of the British short story. Posthumous Stories - a title as misdirectional as the contents themselves - collects 25 years of his work, euphorically paranoid, slyly narrated, often hilarious, always quietly undermining both the narrating voice and any comfortably receptive position the reader might take up. -- M. John Harrison The Guardian
David Rose was born in 1949, living outside West London, between Windsor and Richmond. He spent his working life in the Post Office. His debut story was published in The Literary Review, and since then, has been widely published in small presses in the U.K. and Canada. He is joint owner and Fiction Editor of Main Street Journal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907773570 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907773576 |
| Title | Posthumous Stories |
| Author | David Rose |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-11-25 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
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