All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten :Tales of Love and Loneliness
All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten :Tales of Love and Loneliness
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Published:
15 September, 2012
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Description
Winner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection
Who are the stars of these brief lives? A boy who steals a trundlewheel. An astronaut. A betrayed wife. A man jealous of his lover’s chickens. Commuters. Glampers. Psychotic twins. What do they have in common? Nothing – except the funny-haha and funny-strange conditions of their lives that bring them joy or misery and make us laugh at them and pity them and love them too.
What happens when you lose both your eyes to squash accidents? When you inherit a shop full of curios? When you fall for the spirit of a famous murderer? When your son’s a tramp? When the one you love is about to kill herself? Or has the Ganges delta in her bloodshot eye? When your butcher doesn’t know anything about meat? Discovering the answers to these questions will knock you sideways – and show that the more we understand about people’s oddity, the more we come to appreciate their essential humanity.
In these tiny stories, written over a period of a few short months, Tony Williams pushes the limits of prose fiction, homing in on the moments that sum up lifetimes and their complicated, bittersweet emotions. Each story crams a whole world into a couple of pages – you can sneak them one at a time whenever you have a spare minute, or gobble the lot – with a cast of hundreds – in a single day.
Prizes
Winner of Saboteur Awards: Best Short Story Collection 2013 (UK),Long-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2013 (UK),Long-listed for Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2013 (Ireland)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781844713219 |
| ISBN10 | 1844713210 |
| Number Of Pages | 164 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 9 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Salt Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Tony Williams has successfully used the medium of literature to weave in and out of the life of the average person, re-creating those lives for our reading pleasure. The emotion, humour and awkwardness in these tales is the closest thing to real-life I have read in an extremely long time and I would certainly recommend this book to anyone looking for a good book that will keep you on your toes.
* Sabotage Reviews *There are some perfect little gems in this work; my particular favourite was the two-page story about a man who is jealous of his girlfriend’s pet chickens and how he gets his revenge.
It does give a funny, and sometimes wrenching view of the lives of us eccentric Brits.
* NewBooks Magazine *Author's Bio
Tony Williams’s All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten won the Saboteur Award for best short story collection. His poetry includes The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street and The Midlands. He lived in Sheffield for more than a decade before moving to rural Northumberland. He works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.