Published in America for the first time, a collection of short stories spans the 30-year career of an award-winning short story writer, poet and translator whose works are known for their pristine emotional clarity, their intensely evocative dialogue and their fearless exposure of human emotions.
"Revelatory."The Wall Street Journal
"Constantine's stories ache with concern for the retreating, vulnerable, sacred natural world."New York Times Book Review
This paperback edition of David Constantine's Selected Stories, originally named amongKirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015, features "In Another Country," the tale that inspired the Academy Awardnominated feature film45 Years. Constantine's work is acclaimed for its pristine emotional clarity, spare but intensely evocative dialogue, and timeless, enduring appeal.
David Constantine is an award-winning writer, poet, and translator. His debut North American novel,The Life-Writer, will be published in the fall of 2016.
The paperback edition of one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015, including the story that inspired 45 YEARS.
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"Revelatory."The Wall Street Journal
"Constantine's stories ache with concern for the retreating, vulnerable, sacred natural world."New York Times Book Review "Revelatory."—The Wall Street Journal
"Constantine's stories ache with concern for the retreating, vulnerable, sacred natural world."—New York Times Book Review
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David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and translator. The title story of his North American debut collection of short fiction, In Another Country: Selected Stories (Biblioasis, 2015) was adapted into the Academy Award-nominated feature film 45 Years. He is the author of one previous novel, Davies, as well as four collections of short stories in the UK, including Back at the Spike, Under the Dam, The Shieling, and the winner of the 2013 Frank OConnor Award, Tea at the Midland and Other Stories. His collections of poetry include Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts (shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize), Collected Poems, and Nine Fathom Deep. He is also a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux, and Jaccottet. He lives in Oxford, where until 2012 he edited Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.
