Zoo : short stories from the cheshire prize for literature 2009 by Unknown instant download

Zoo : short stories from the cheshire prize for literature 2009 by Unknown instant download

1 online resource, A penguin sits calmly in a classroom, a past-it actor confronts a spectre, and air raid sirens ring out over the Mersey. Elsewhere, a lonely child prays to a dead pop star, a social misfit learns something important, a misanthrope is reformed by an unlikely companion, and a boy imagines beauty where others see only ugliness. This is Zoo, where the quotidian and the sublime are juxtaposed and where we can imagine ourselves momentarily, at least living the lives of others. As spectators we progress from one cage to another; as readers of the anthology we go from one story to the next, visiting s, Front cover; Title pages; Copyright page; Contents; The Contributors; Foreword; Tessa Sheridan -- That Going to the Zoo Thing; Simon Gotts -- Summer Show: Schedule of Events; Die Booth -- The Audsley Chimera; Heather Freckleton -- Praying to the Dead Michael Jackson; Gilian Higgs -- A Letter to Martin; Alison Leonard -- The Bonesetter's Nephew; Helen Dalton -- The Persistence of Memory, Mr Dali; Oliver Briscoe -- The Case of the Six Seeds; Lynne Voyce -- Dreamtime Providence; Sophie Coulombeau -- High Flyer; Jan Bengree -- Welly Boots; Emily-Jo Hopson -- And Speaking of Silence, David Diggory -- Penguinnapped!John Latham -- A Bag of Eggs; Sheila Powell -- Spoons on a Washing Line; Madeleine Beveridge -- A Meeting of Inconsequence; Catherine Marseille -- Y + Y; Sarah Hilary -- In the Time it Takes to Boil an Egg; Annette Albuquerque -- The Sitting Tenant; Max Dunbar -- Autographed; Rachael Bundock -- Revenant; Richard Lakin -- Death is Nothing At All; Kaite Welsh -- The Art of Stonemasonry; Back cover