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The Ugliest House in the World: Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter Ho DaviesPublish date:11/4/1998Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780395924808ISBN-10:395924804UPC:9780395924808Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Humorous, Small Town & RuralBook Topic:Dark HumorSize:7.89 x 5.11 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC62QKAQY6

Peter Ho Davies is a young writer of unusually worldly perspective. Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, he writes stories that not only reflect his multinational heritage, but delight in odd juxtapositions. In tales that travel from Coventry to Kuala Lumpur, from the past to the present, and from hilarity to tragedy, American bandits herd ostriches in Patagonia, British soldiers confront Zulus in Natal, and John Wayne leads the way for local revolutionaries in Southeast Asia. These are stories in which small lives are affected by consequential events. In "A Union," a prolonged strike at a Welsh slate quarry plays mystifying tricks of time on a couple expecting a baby. In "The Silver Screen," ragtag rebels join a communist revolution with all the flair of the Keystone Kops. In the heartbreaking title story, a rural community in North Wales copes with the accidental death of a child and learns the reaches of guilt. With their deep vein of humanism and pointed humor, the stories

Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780395924808ISBN-10:395924804UPC:9780395924808Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Humorous, Small Town & RuralBook Topic:Dark HumorSize:7.89 x 5.11 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC62QKAQY6
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PETER HO DAVIES's novel, The Fortunes, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Chautauqua Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Welsh Girl, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and a London Times best-seller, as well as two critically acclaimed collections of short stories. His fiction has appeared in Harpers, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, and Granta and has been anthologized in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories.

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