All the beloved ghosts by MacLeod, Alison, 1964- author instant download

All the beloved ghosts by MacLeod, Alison, 1964- author instant download

237 pages ; 23 cm, Acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded,blending fiction, biography and memoir Hovering on the border of life and death, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures. In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman wears a new fur coat to a dance that will change everything. A teenager searches for his lover on a charged summer evening in 2011, as around him London erupts in anger. A cardiac specialist lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he awaits a new heart - and is transported into the past. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury Group, is overcome by all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. Precise, playful and evocative, these exquisitely crafted stories unfold at the line between reality and fiction, capturing the unexpected joys, small tragedies and profound truths of existence, The thaw -- Solo, a cappella -- The heart of Denis Noble -- Sylvia wears pink in the underworld -- There are precious things -- Oscillate wildly -- Dreaming Diana: twelve frames -- In praise of radical fish -- Imagining Chekhov -- Woman with little pug -- Chekhov's telescope -- The death of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov -- How to make a citizen's arrest -- We are Methodists -- All the beloved ghosts