& other stories
Martin Foreman
Paradise Press ISBN 0 9525964 7 4 £6.99
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& other stories Martin Foreman Paradise Press ISBN 0 9525964 7 4 £6.99 |
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the stories: Kitchen Table Night Traffic Basement Pokhara Foucault's Nightmare Homophobia, Darling Cold Silence Los Feliz Judy Ten Million Years The Last Saturday in May Angel First and Fiftieth Ben and Joe's Sunset Afterword reviews & comments styles themes promote this site Last update: 5 March 2004 |
"It is hard to comment on such a wide variety of stories with little in common apart from the exceptional craftmanship and the essential sorrow of the human condition. One or two I did not like (eg the Basement) and I shall need to reread Cold Silence to understand it. But all the rest touched the soul, with for me the most poignant being Judy. I am not really a fan of short stories since reading Saki and O'Henry aged twelve, which bewitched me. "She was a good cook as cooks go, and as cooks go, she went". Forty odd years later I can remember few details, but I recall that they met the same human condition, but with a lighter touch. Nevertheless many of Martin Foreman's stories can stand proudly beside these two giants of the end of the 19th century." Peter Mitchell, February 2004 author of The Peculiar History of Oliver Trent "You have at least one reader who feels substantially richer from the experience. You have a truly exciting ability to enter your characters. There is an old Indian saying in these parts: 'To walk in another's moccasins' and this you do superlatively. Thank you for sharing your indubitable talents with me." David Watmough, July 2003 author, most recently of The Moor is Dark beneath the Moon "The youthful yet already impressive Paradise Press goes from strength to strength with their publication of Martin Foreman's collection of first persona narratives" Gay Times, April 2003 more comments... Martin Foreman's latest collection of short stories comprises first person narratives spanning the globe from Rio de Janeiro to Los Angeles, Africa to Nepal, London to Siberia. Men and women from teenagers to grandparents each speak in a distinctive voice and with intense emotion as love and sex, violence and humour, anger and pathos meet in this kaleidoscope of human comedy and tragedy. Want to try before you buy? Read extracts by clicking on the story titles on the left Read the book? Want to find out more about the characters and their backgrounds? Want to comment? Click on a story title or comments. Want to know about the author and his other work? Click on an option to the right or on the banner below. |
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