The Not-Dead and The Saved and Other Stories
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The Not-Dead and The Saved and Other Stories by Kate Clanchy
None of us are perfect, in the way we love, age, or view the world. The Not-Dead and the Saved offers us an opportunity for reinvention: of ourselves, those we have lost, and the world in which we live. From a man doomed to spend his life trying to find solutions to cancer; to a new mother haunted by a swaddling, tablet-eating great-aunt; to an intrepid literary agent who travels to the Yorkshire Moors to discover the next big thing, and ends up eating Anne Bronte's rock cakes, we meet a host of characters who are desperately, creatively, and often hilariously trying to evade the underlying truths of their lives. The Not-Dead and the Saved is a cascade, of warm, wise and insightful stories about human nature, frank, funny, and sometimes desolating, but always underpinned by tenderness, and by a faith in enduring bonds of love.
Moving swiftly between the comic and the tragic, Clanchy has an eager eye for each and every detail in between* Guardian *
Here are female relationships in all their envy, jealousy, anger, ambition and fear . . . mitigated by wit and energy. -- Amanda Craig * Independent *
Clanchy started her career as a poet, and her stories, not surprisingly, are as compressed as verse, without a word to spare . . . A feat of voice and structure, breathtaking in its poignancy . . . Clanchy's tales possess a raw, unsettled urgency, as if she were gripping the reader by the collar. These are not, it should be noted, stories for the faint of heart. They are literary hand grenades, raising difficult questions about the world in which we live - which is exactly what we need right now. -- Joanna Rakoff * Guardian *
Here are female relationships in all their envy, jealousy, anger, ambition and fear . . . mitigated by wit and energy. -- Amanda Craig * Independent *
Clanchy started her career as a poet, and her stories, not surprisingly, are as compressed as verse, without a word to spare . . . A feat of voice and structure, breathtaking in its poignancy . . . Clanchy's tales possess a raw, unsettled urgency, as if she were gripping the reader by the collar. These are not, it should be noted, stories for the faint of heart. They are literary hand grenades, raising difficult questions about the world in which we live - which is exactly what we need right now. -- Joanna Rakoff * Guardian *
Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher and journalist. Her poetry collection Slattern won a Forward Prize. Her short story ‘The Not-Dead and the Saved’ won both the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award and the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. Her novel Meeting the English was shortlisted for the Costa Prize. Her BBC 3 radio programme about her work with students was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes prize. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature, and an anthology of her students' work, England: Poems from a School, was published to great acclaim. In 2019 she published Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, a book about her experience of teaching in state schools for several decades.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330535267 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330535269 |
| Title | The Not-Dead and The Saved and Other Stories |
| Author | Kate Clanchy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2016-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2016 (UK) |
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