Fates of the Animals by Padrika Tarrant
By turns tender and unsettling, these stories lurk at the citys tattered edges, where the pigeons cry for the pain of the world; where Satans daughter wants to die of love and the angels keep nicking Gods fags.Tarrant’s book of stories claps in blacked rooms, has a smile as wide as the Ripper’s blade, prowls in midnight back alleys until the threadbare structure of the world’s bones has some meatIt’s not jaded, it has wonder, she would stop to gain knowledge of leaves ballet dancing down in a purple sky, and that’s a rarity nowadays in this cynical world of austerity and celebrity. They could even be read to children as bedtime stories, and that is the greatest compliment I think I could give.
-- Grant Tarbard * Ink, Sweat and Tears *
Padrika Tarrant was born in 1974. She read sculpture at Norwich School of Art, where she developed an unhealthy fixation with scissors and the animator Jan Svankmajer. Fates of the Animals is her third book, following Broken Things (Salt 2007) and The Knife Drawer (Salt 2011). She lives in Norwich with her beautiful daughter and some lovely stuffed animals. She does not entirely trust her cutlery.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781907773587 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907773584 |
| Title | Fates of the Animals |
| Author | Padrika Tarrant |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2016 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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