The BBC National Short Story Award 2017 by Joanna Trollope

The BBC National Short Story Award 2017 by Joanna Trollope

There is in the short story, at its most characteristic, something we do not often find in the novel, Frank O'Connor wrote, an intense awareness of human loneliness. The stories shortlisted for the BC National Short Story Award with BookTrust 2017 all feature characters that are disconnected, willingly or unwillingly, from those around them: a mysterious out-of-towner is shunned by her new colleagues; a grieving husband retreats into his old compulsion for hoarding; a promising academic risks his career for a casual liaison with a younger man. And whether we follow the characters' need to be alone - like the fisherman drifting dangerously far from shore - or trace it back to its root - like the daughter burying her violent father - what we find there is always unexpected. This year's shortlist was selected by authors Eimear McBride, Jon McGregor and Sunjeev Sahota, as well as BC Radio's Di Speirs and acclaimed novelist Joanna Trollope who chaired the panel and introduces the collection.

Joanna Trollope OBE is a British writer. She also wrote under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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ISBN 13	9781910974353
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Titre	The BBC National Short Story Award 2017
Auteur	Joanna Trollope
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Comma Press
Année de publication	2017-09-15
Nombre de pages	144
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