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Scar Tissue
Scar Tissue
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Daw'r straeon yn Scar Tissue o dan benawdau enigmataidd megis gofod, cartref, oddi cartref, lle ac unlle. Trwy amrywiaeth eang o gymeriadau a sefyllfaoedd, trafodir rhyw, marwolaeth, perthnasau, perthyn a dadleoliad. Straeon cain, deniadol ar gyfer ein hoes ni.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
The stories in Scar Tissue appear under the enigmatic headings of Space, Home, Away, Nowhere, Somewhere. Through a wide variety of characters and situations, Clare Morgan's subjects include sex, death, relationships, belonging and displacement. Engaging, beautifully made tales for our time.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781726891
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781726891
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Scar Tissue
- Awdur / Author
- Morgan, Clare
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2022-09-25
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 160 pages
- Size
- 135 × 208 mm; depth 15 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Nofelau a Storïau ar Gyfer Oedolion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Adult Fiction and Stories (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Straeon Byrion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Short Stories (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Clare Morgan is a fiction writer and literary critic who lives in Gwynedd. Her novel A Book for All and None was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and her short story collection, An Affair of the Heart , by Seren. Her stories have been widely anthologized, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her book What Poetry Brings to Business was published by University of Michigan Press and her recent writing on the subject has featured in the Wall Street Journal , FastCompany and Humanizing Business (Springer, 2021). She is founder and director of Oxford University’s creative writing programme, and a Fellow at Kellogg College.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
In 2021, Man Booker Prize-winning author and creative-writing tutor, George Saunders, published A Swim in a Pond in the Rain . The book took the form of alternating chapters: seven complete classic Russian short stories from the likes of Chekhov, Tolstoy and Gogol, paired with original essays by Saunders, based on his insights from years of teaching literature and creative writing. For the casual reader, the effect was fantastic. Under Saunders’ appraisal, what often felt like deceptively simple, but very good, short stories suddenly had new depths illuminated, with complexities highlighted and meanings altered, questioned, challenged and explained. By the end, the short story as an art form was clear, and the quality of good short fiction unquestioned in its power. Clare Morgan’s new collection, Scar Tissue , is crying out for Saunders’ appraising eye. Just like the Russian greats, Morgan’s stories are poetic, simple, direct, but loaded with implied meaning that is never quite fully clear. Reading Scar Tissue , what is clear is that you’re in the presence of a true talent. In ‘Breathing on the Moon’, when Morgan writes, ‘There is nothing so profound as the silence of inarticulation’, it takes on a powerful meaning, being, as it is, in the middle of a story that’s the product of incredible articulation. This is a special book. Scar tissue is what remains after physical trauma. It reconnects what once was broken. Scar Tissue is a fitting title for this collection as, at the heart of each story, is something offering a form of connection. In ‘Breathing on the Moon’, literature itself, particularly the erotic themes of Henry Miller, offers a way for our protagonist to connect the theoretical idea of life and her experiences. While this causes as much trouble as it brings comfort, the words of Miller offer something that connects Annie’s lived experience and the space in her mind she inhabits. In ‘Thirwega’, the connection between new life and death is skirted around in the story of an adoption. Nothing explicitly happens, but a cast of well-rounded characters dance around something that we are never fully clear will happen or not. ‘Furious Interiors (Fragments of an Agon)’ not only introduced this reader to the concept of an agon (a Greek term for a struggle between the protagonist and antagonist), but also had the effect of its power far exceeding its short length – the sign of a powerful writer at work. In the fireplace of a Welsh cottage, our protagonist sweeps and cleans, but is uniquely aware of the time, people and experiences that connect them with that very spot. Again, the connections are the heart of the story, with their ghostly presence leaving a lingering impact for the reader. Scar Tissue is a collection of stories that really demonstrates the power of well-crafted short fiction. Morgan’s careful articulation and deceptively simple stories are very much a match for the Russian greats. I hope a copy of this finds its way to George Saunders.
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