William Soutar Writing Prize Short Stories 2012 (eBook, PDF)
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| Hersteller: | Perth & Kinros Libraries |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
William Soutar would have loved this fine collection of stories from the heart of Scotland and beyond. Like the best of his own work, they are intimately personal and wonderfully universal at the same time. They are also intensely local, and proudly national in their rich mell of Scots and English, again reflecting the cultural commitment embraced by the poet himself. The standard of the competition was remarkably high, and the choice of which ones would be winners, extremely difficult. I am delighted therefore that Perth and Kinross Libraries are producing this e book containing all of the short listed entries. Every one of them deserves the prize of being read by you! The very best short stories are those in which a tight economy of words prevail and the author succeeds in distilling complex human emotions or historical processes into a few sentences, paragraphs and pages. If you want to read a masterpiece of the genre, try Guy de Maupassant´s Corsican tale "e;A Vendetta"e; . I swear you will never underestimate the capabilities of little old ladies again! "e;Tea at the Ritz"e; is a gentler tale which succeeds beautifully in telling a story about love and loss. It also condenses the recent history of Aberdeen into a perfect whole, in which the main character Archie reflects the quandaries of a community and a family undergoing change. "e;When Mozart Steyed the Nicht in Methil"e; is a fantastical conceit in terrific Scots - the description of a chitterin cauld winter´s nicht in Fife mindit me o the Makar Robert Henryson´s introduction to The Testament of Cresseid. In contrast "e;Fox´s Cabin"e; takes us to the warmth of an Appalachian spring and the gift of renewal given to a city boy who realises he may need to go back to his roots to re-build a shattered life. "e;Annie´s Tale"e; has echoes of the poetry of Violet Jacob and Helen B. Cruikshank and a cameo appearance of a Romantic male lead who recalls both Ewan Tavendale in Sunset Song and Johnny Faa of the ballads. The poignancy of the loss of Annie´s bairn and her first love, is eloquently expressed in the final sentence where she places her lover´s gift... "e;in her bodice next to her breaking heart."e; Three of the stories are set in the past and evoke vividly incidents from local history. "e;Outlawed"e; recreates an older Perthshire countryside thrang wi cairds, orra fowk, sleekit sleight o´ haund blackguards, thieves an murtherers - the kind of folk you only rarely meet on the streets of Scone or Auchterarder today! "e;The Bonnet"e; recreates an incident mentioned by Burns and immortalised in To a Louse - the balloon flight of Vincenzo Lunardi from Edinburgh to Fife in 1785 and its effect on fashion items for the trig young ladies of the day. Another story graced with steiran use of the Scots tongue, "e;Bonny Peggy Alison"e; takes us back to the drawing rooms and dancing parties of Enlightenment Edinburgh and an erotically charged strathspey with an alluring reid heidit lassie who could have been a model for Pre-Raphaelite painters like Rossetti. "e;Surgery"e; is a sensitive portrayal of a tense meeting between a doctor and patient in America in the post -war period when society was still male dominated and attitudes were macho. It recalled for me the sexist attitudes in the early series of the fine television series Madmen. This is a situation where sexual tension should be absent, but the doctor is a man with the failings of men from that era. It makes for a finely nuanced dance around core human issues such as love, fidelity, sexuality and confidentiality.
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