Lawrence Osborne: Burning Angel and Other Stories
Burning Angel and Other Stories
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 08/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781781090831
- Bestellnummer: 11436077
- Umfang: 342 Seiten
- Gewicht: 600 g
- Maße: 216 x 135 mm
- Stärke: 40 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 3.8.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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'Brilliant' SUNDAY TIMES'Compelling and unnerving' SPECTATOR
**A NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year 2023**
This first collection of stories by Lawrence Osborne perfectly showcases his talent for tension, atmosphere - and characters out of their depth
A naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission by a ruthless and disturbed pastor. A deaf girl hired as a maid by a wealthy New York couple turns the tables on her obliviously abusive employers and answers blackmail with blackmail. A psychiatrist treating a girl in rural England becomes ensnared in a love affair that threatens to destroy her career; while a young couple on holiday in Oman accidentally witness a killing, which leads to their being hunted as well. An entomologist at a remote hotel in the Andamans survives a tsunami and uses a dead body to further her study of ants.
Collected here for the first time, Lawrence Osborne's stories, like his novels - 'elaborate and intricately plotted dances macabres' (The Times) - feel like nightmares set against calmly and meticulously observed backgrounds. With their nods to Daphne du Maurier and Roald Dahl, these nine long-form stories explore characters lost in the shadowed borders between the mundane, the fantastical and the violence of the natural world.