Collected Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Collective Ink
Published:26th Jan '07
Should be back in stock very soon
Nicholas Hagger's collected five volumes of some 1,000 very short stories here create a new genre: the symbolic or miniature story. Each story expresses an eternal truth through an image conveyed in a vivid title, and can provide the reader with a complete literary experience in a few minutes. They make ideal reading for the train, in bed, in a hospital or as a class-room text. Each volume covers a decade, starting with the 1960s and ending with the 2000s, while each story stands on its own but chimes to a theme, the development being from horror to acceptance.
He hits a pace, a tilt, that really carries the reader along...Everything comes as a subordinate clause to his dramatic momentum, a hand waving out of the express train window. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate His poetic felicities include a poetic mix of Eliot, Pound and Blake; the judicious invention of his own psychological terms to guide his progress; an unafraid nakedness, linked to philosophic and scientific adventurousness; genuine visionary leanings and occasional lyric beauty. Sebastian Barker, past chairman of The Poetry Society Nicholas Hagger writes with a rare intellectual passion. Sir Laurens van der Post
ISBN: 9781846940279
Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 51mm
Weight: 1378g
1154 pages