{"product_id":"mrs-pulaska-and-other-stories","title":"Mrs Pulaska and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith this new collection the acclaimed novelist Christopher Burns proves his mastery of the short story form. His intelligent but conflicted characters face their decisive moments across wide ranges of time and place, each action reshaping their futures and redefining their pasts. Interplaying with these choices are locations that underpin and define each story, such as a repository of unstable nitrate film, a desert outcrop where a daughter vanished, a winter barn in which a silent refugee works without explanation, and a Parisian suicide that echoes down far more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eIn these stories, landscape itself can be a determinant, as essential to the narrative as the characters that walk into a draining reservoir, a Neolithic cave, or a remote Greek church. For these are driven people – haunted or determined, alert or unaware, lovers or doubters, saviours or perpetrators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eSeveral of these stories have previously appeared in publications as diverse as \u003ccite\u003eLes Temps Modernes\u003c\/cite\u003e, \u003ccite\u003eGranta Shorts\u003c\/cite\u003e, \u003ccite\u003eBest British Short Stories\u003c\/cite\u003e, \u003ccite\u003eThe Time Out Book of New York Stories\u003c\/cite\u003e and \u003ccite\u003eProspect\u003c\/cite\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eChristopher Burns’ work has been praised by Kazuo Ishiguro, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Hilary Mantel and others. He is the author of six novels, including \u003ccite\u003eThe Flint Bed\u003c\/cite\u003e (shortlisted for the Whitbread award), \u003ccite\u003eThe Condition of Ice\u003c\/cite\u003e, \u003ccite\u003eA Division of the Light\u003c\/cite\u003e, and an earlier collection of short stories, \u003ccite\u003eAbout The Body\u003c\/cite\u003e. He lives in Cumbria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eThis is a wholly distinctive, ambitious and challenging collection that can be read again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49573134106968,"sku":"9781784633158","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784633158.jpg?v=1764790215","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mrs-pulaska-and-other-stories","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}