Elsewhere
Subtitle: Stories from Small Town Europe
Publisher: Comma Poetry; Comma
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Manchester, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781905583133
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author); Europe, fiction
Description: What do we mean by small town? How has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to function as a pejorative? Pressed to describe what the phrase ‘small town’ conjures up, we’d be hard pushed to say anything positive: closed-minded; petty; provincial; parochial. On a broad European canvas, however, the rich traditions of short story writing challenge these preconceptions. The stories collected here are neither narrow-minded nor petty, nor do the minds of their protagonists contract to fit their environment.