Grief and Other Stories

In this, Theodore Dalrymple's second collection of short stories, he begins to let his imagination run. The absurdity of modern life is fully laid bare when taken to extremes. You will laugh through your tears.

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Satire is prophecy.

- Theodore Dalrymple

About the author

Theodore Dalrymple is a former prison doctor and psychiatrist. He has been arrested as a spy in Gabon, been sought by the South African police for violating apartheid, visited the site of a civilian massacre by the government of Liberia, concealed his status as a writer for fear of execution in Equatorial Guinea, infiltrated an English communist group in order to attend the World Youth Festival in North Korea, performed Shakespeare in Afghanistan, smuggled banned books to dissidents in Romania, been arrested and struck with truncheons for photographing an anti-government demonstration in Albania and crossed both Africa and South America using only public transportation. He is also the author of more than two dozen books and innumerable essays.

Product details

• Authors: Theodore Dalrymple
• Publisher: World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781943003167
• ISBN: 978-1-943003-16-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 306 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature