Tea at the Midland by David Constantine
Filled with characters that are often delicately caught in moments of defiance, disregarding their age, their family, or the prevailing political winds, this collection finds a space for resistance and taking an honest delight in it. Alphonse, having broken out of an old people's home, changed his name, and fled the country, pedals down the length of the Rhone despite knowing he has barely six months to live. Meanwhile, a clergyman chooses to spend Christmas Eve--and the last few hours in his job--in a frozen, derelict school, dancing a wild jig with a vagrant called Goat. Holding real life at arm's length, this volume's bewitching, finely-wrought stories allow readers to escape and to take possession of the moment.
Constantine is writing for his lifeEvery sentence and paragraph is shaped, tense with meaning and unobtrusively beautiful, his images of the natural world burning their way into the reader's mind. --Maggie Gee, Sunday Times Perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form. --Reader
David Constantine is a poet and a translator of Hoelderlin, Goethe, and Brecht. He is the editor for Modern Poetry in Translation and Something for the Ghosts, and his ownCollected Poemswas publishedin 2004. Bernard O'Donoghue is a teacher of medieval English at Wadham College andthe author of Here Nor There.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905583492 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905583494 |
| Title | Tea at the Midland |
| Author | David Constantine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Comma Press |
| Year published | 2012-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Winner of Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2013 |
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