Fresh Apples by Rachel Trezise
Eleven wry and defiant stories on the power and beautiful transience of youth. Sarah's not abnormal or ugly, just a little bit fat, and she's got cerebral palsy. No way was it rape or even molestation...she's fourteen, not a child. I'm not a paedophile. Gemma's mother had shagged Tom Jones. Nobody knew who her father was, least of all her mother. Spiderman doesn't want to inflict his petty thief persona on self-contained Caitlin, but he finds himself getting off at her stop. When her grand-dad's chickens start to peck each other, sounding like death warming up, Chelle rings one of their necks and ends up doing worse. Her gentle, exact punishment is met with even greater respect for the old man. Johnny Mental was sitting on his porch wearing sunglasses, drinking lager, his teeth orange and ugly. Someone was painting their front door a few yards away, with a portable radio playing soul music; Diana Ross or some shit. A big burgundy Vauxhall Cavalier came around the corner, real slow like an old man on a hill.
The power is what is not said..the use of language economic, inventive and highly evocative New Welsh Review She rants, she sulks, but she remains defiant. You guess immediately that she is a survivor The Guardian
This is Rachel Trezise's first short fiction collection. Her novel In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl won the Orange Futures Award. Her stories and features on rock bands, writing and the arts have appeared widely in publication and anthologies, including the Big Issue, New Welsh Review and Urban Welsh. Rachel is currently touring with rock band Midasuno researching a travel documentary to be published by Parthian in 2006
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| ISBN 13 | 9781902638577 |
| ISBN 10 | 1902638573 |
| Title | Fresh Apples |
| Author | Rachel Trezise |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Parthian Books |
| Year published | 2005-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
| Prizes | Winner of Dylan Thomas Prize (Literary Excellence) 2006 |
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