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Overheard

Paperback • 2012 • English

Overheard

By Jonathan Taylor

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About the book

Winner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Fiction Anthology From village storytellers to nineteenth-century serialisations, from pub anecdotes to dramatic monologues, storytelling is an enduring art form. This collection of short stories reconnects storytelling with its oral and performative roots. There are stories here for performance, stories which play with sound, stories which dramatise conflicting voices, and stories which are musical in style. Because of the way these stories speak from...Show more

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ISBN

9781907773266

Publisher

Salt Publishing

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Overheard

Format

Paperback

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