Author:Alice Hoffman
From the great May storm in 1778 when John Hadley and his sons slip the British blockade off the coast of Massachusetts only to disappear at sea, the lives of the inhabitants of the wooden farmhouse on the cape, stranded amid fields of sweet peas and wild fruit vines and red pear trees, coil and weave around each other, right up to the present. Young Isaac Hadley is more interested in his pet blackbird and the star charts in The Practical Navigator than in helping to build the house; and Violet, a century later, with her stained face and her own ghostly bird, reads the same book, and finds that it's easy enough to trick a learned man, though harder to catch one...Larkin Howard is ready to sell his soul to buy the farm, but meets a woman who hears the whales cry on the beach; while in another century the young Farrell boy sees more than he should on a snowy night- and the pond out back is still dark and unforgiving beneath its deceptively golden lilies. By the 1950s, the farmhouse is part of a community of steady men and wayward boys, and women who make jam but still feel the ghostly breath of Cora Hadley, with her green fingers. As a second century draws to a close and summer visitors from the cities take over the countryside, the house can barely hold all its ghosts, but the tragedies are not over...
With a sense of place that is uncanny, and vividly real characters whose lives don't run smooth and whose stories loop together across space and time, this is a remarkable, haunting and accomplished work from a favourite novelist - an irresistible fiction about a house for all seasons.
A mix of modern fairy tales from the LA-based author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake ... Bender is a bold writer; her stories unpredictable and exciting.
—— Red, Book of the MonthI adore her style of writing and the way she views the world.
—— Cecelia Ahern, author of PS, I Love YouAimee Bender spins the surreal wheel of human experiences and comes up with the enchanting story collection The Color Master.
—— Vanity FairFull of humor, wit, and pathos, The Color Master is the work of a writer with a strong, distinctive point of view, and with enough confidence to let it lead her into fresh and exciting places.
—— The Boston GlobeAimee Bender is at her wickedly best in her latest short-story collection, with tales both dark and comic.
—— Los Angeles TimesWith her magical writing, Bender creates extraordinary tales ... that never take you where you think they will.
—— Sainsbury's magazineThese father-son stories bring us the first meeting with one of Nordic literature’s most lovable characters, Arvid Jansen. A mixture of Alfons Åberg, Ingemar from My Life as a Dog and in part Oskar from The Tin Drum ... New readers should begin nowhere but here
—— Euroman (Denmark)There is both humour and tenderness in Per Petterson’s debut collection from 1987 … Petterson masters the art of writing simply of big subjects. As a reader, you have to read slowly and attentively to register everything, or read the book twice, which you gladly will
—— Kristeligt Dagblad (Norway)If you loved Out Stealing Horses, you won’t be disappointed by his razor-sharp debut… The language is simple, beautiful and cleansed of literary affectation. There is not a single superfluous word
—— Ekstrabladet (Denmark)There is both humour and tenderness… Petterson masters the art of writing simply of big subjects. As a reader, you have to read slowly and attentively to register everything, or read the book twice, which you gladly will
—— Kristeligt Dagblad (Norway)Dreamy and evanescent, [the stories] recall the opening pages of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
—— Jon Michaud , Washington PostFull of heartache and the ways in which we hurt each other, and ourselves... Fans of Kennedy's quirky expressionism won't be disappointed.
—— Sunday TimesEvidence that, at her best, there’s no-one to touch Kennedy.
—— Neil Stewart , CivilianFull of challenges and beauty.
—— StylistThis is a sure-footed and intelligently organized collection. These small pieces encompass an extensive emotional territory
—— Chris Power , GuardianAn arresting collection that blends poetic imagery, raw emotion and cerebral insight
—— Juanita Coulson , LadyAs subtle as the colour of Kitsune's silk
—— M John Harrison , GuardianRussell is an amazing storyteller, and this book certainly whets the appetite for her next offering
—— Irish Times‘[Barrett] cuts across all kinds of boundaries of class and education to produce immensely tender portraits of living characters.
—— Anne Enright , Irish ExaminerThis is an exceptional debut, and one of the best collection of short stories that I have read in years.
—— Louise O’Neill, 5 stars , Irish PostAn exciting debut
—— Sunday TimesI don’t think I’ve ever read a better collection by somebody I had never heard of
—— William Leith , Evening StandardA technically-assured collection that never disappoints
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