Dancing on the outskirts
By: Shena Mackay
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780349007038; 9780349007045
Subjects: Social life and customs; English Short stories; Kurzgeschichte; Manners and customs; Erzählung; Englisch; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A wonderful collection of short stories by the doyenne of the form, a writer known for 'the Mackay vision, suburban - as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house, its threshold radiant with tiling and stained-glass birds of paradise encased in leaded lights'- Guardian. Shena Mackay came to fame aged 20 when she published her first book, written in her teens, with Andre Deutsch. At times darkly surreal and funny, always deft, and highly memorable, her fiction has attracted a legion of fierce admirers ranging from Iris Murdoch to Julie Burchill, Ian Hamilton to Rachel Cooke.
Table of contents: title: Awesome day; title: Babushka in the Blue Bus; title: The Day of the Gecko; title: Electric-blue Damsels; title: Ennui; title: Family service; title: Glass; title: Grasshopper Green; title: Heron Cottage; title: The Last Sand Dance; title: The Late Wasp; title: The Laughing Academy; title: A Mine of Serpents; title: The New Year Boy; title: Pigs in Blankets; title: Pink Cigarettes; title: Pumpkin Soup; title: Radio Gannet; title: The Running of the Deer; title: Shinty; title: Shooting Stars; title: A Silly Gigolo; title: A Silver Summer; title: Slaves to the Mushroom; title: Soft Volcano; title: The Stained-Glass Door; title: Starlight Blaze and Pepperpot; title: Where the Carpet Ends; title: Windfalls.