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Robbins David
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      This is prizewinning author David Robbins¿ twentieth book. Oblique Light is a collection of long short-stories set in Scotland and dealing with the alienation and amorality of self-imposed exile. This is short fiction of the highest order. The stories were conceived in Scotland in the early 1970s and finally completed in Johannesburg forty years later. In his short introduction, Robbins sets the scene: ¿I lived in a stone-built town huddled on the mainland side of the Firth of Clyde. Here, the landscapes finally began to mean something to me. Far from being picturesque, they struck me as low and potentially hostile. At first I thought the landscapes had shaped my general mood. It was only later that I began to understand how much my deepening emptiness and ideas of alienation had shaped the landscapes, bending them to the contours of my eyes.¿ From the gloom of these settings emerges a collection of characters, many of them unmistakably South African, that are drawn with power and a mature skill. The book is Robbins¿ third collection of short stories. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Literary Award in 2010. One of the editors to work on the Oblique Light manuscript described it as of ¿absolutely major importance¿.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Robbins David EAN: 9781920609276 COUNTRY: South Africa PAGES: WEIGHT: 500 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Porcupine Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-08-01 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author) WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Short stories

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      This is prizewinning author David Robbins¿ twentieth book. Oblique Light is a collection of long short-stories set in Scotland and dealing with the alienation and amorality of self-imposed exile. This is short fiction of the highest order. The stories were conceived in Scotland in the early 1970s and finally completed in Johannesburg forty years later. In his short introduction, Robbins sets the scene: ¿I lived in a stone-built town huddled on the mainland side of the Firth of Clyde. Here, the landscapes finally began to mean something to me. Far from being picturesque, they struck me as low and potentially hostile. At first I thought the landscapes had shaped my general mood. It was only later that I began to understand how much my deepening emptiness and ideas of alienation had shaped the landscapes, bending them to the contours of my eyes.¿ From the gloom of these settings emerges a collection of characters, many of them unmistakably South African, that are drawn with power and a mature skill. The book is Robbins¿ third collection of short stories. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Literary Award in 2010. One of the editors to work on the Oblique Light manuscript described it as of ¿absolutely major importance¿.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Robbins David EAN: 9781920609276 COUNTRY: South Africa PAGES: WEIGHT: 500 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Porcupine Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-08-01 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author) WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Short stories

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