The Coward's Tale

Zusatztext Powerful in its storytelling! touching in its view of small-town life! and bold in its stylised language Informationen zum Autor Vanessa Gebbie is the author of two collections of stories and contributing editor of a creating writing text book. She has won numerous awards - including prizes at Bridport, Fish and the Willesden Herald (the latter judged by Zadie Smith) - for her short fiction. An extract from The Coward's Tale , her first novel, won the Daily Telegraph 'Novel in a Year' Competition. Vanessa Gebbie is Welsh and lives in Sussex. Klappentext FICTION / General A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and restitution and the ways in which the present is carved out of an unforgiving past. Zusammenfassung A dazzling first novel about kinship and kindness, guilt and restitution and the ways in which the present is carved out of an unforgiving past.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa Gebbie
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9781408822630
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-2263-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary