Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman, to the family aided by an enemy in 'The Crossing', to the old man weighing his regrets in 'Francis John Jones, 1924 -' Seiffert's acclaimed, refined prose movingly captures the lives of her characters in their most essential, secret moments.A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year.

Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman, to the family aided by an enemy in 'The Crossing', to the old man weighing his regrets in 'Francis John Jones, 1924 -' Seiffert's acclaimed, refined prose movingly captures the lives of her characters in their most essential, secret moments.

A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year.



Vorwort
'Contains vast themes of war and kinship, grief and terror, love and trust. This is the short story at its best' - Sunday Times

Autorentext

Rachel Seiffert

Titel
Field Study
EAN
9781407091969
ISBN
978-1-4070-9196-9
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
30.06.2010
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.2 MB
Anzahl Seiten
272
Jahr
2010
Untertitel
Englisch
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