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    Worlds from the Word's End

    By Joanna Walsh

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    This collection cements Joanna Walsh’s reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh’s stories make us see the world afresh while showing us she has read the world. In ‘Like a Fish Needs a . . .’ – perhaps the funniest, most freewheeling story ever written about cycling (and Freud and and and . . .) you read shenanigans worthy of Flann O’Brien. Meanwhile, in ‘Worlds from the Word’s End’, Walsh conjures up a country in which words themselves fall out of fashion – something that will never happen wherever Walsh is read.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnd Other Stories
    Release dateSep 7, 2017
    ISBN9781911508113
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    Joanna Walsh

    Joanna Walsh's work has appearedin Granta, Narrative, The Stinging Fly and Guernica, amongst others. Her first collection, Fractals, was published by 3:AM Press in 2013 and her non-fiction work Hotel was published internationally by Bloomsbury in 2015. This was followed by Grow a Pair and her most recent collection Vertigo, which was published by And Other Stories in the UK in 2016. Her digitally groundbreaking novella Seed was released in 2017 as well as her third collection of stories, Words from the World's End.

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      The Linden Tree
      By Cesar Aira
      2003/2018

      Originally published in Argentina, written in 2003 thus reflective and charming novella is a walk through the memories of a young man's childhood, it could be Aira life.....
      It is a story of the love he felt for his father, a man who every day traveled to the linden tree to gather the linden flower to make a tea for his deformed and deranged mother....
      Riveting. Recommended.
    • 3/5
      A novella really, but incredibly dense nontheless. What may be a fictionalized version of the authors own life. A black father, who was an ardent Catholic before he became a Peronist, seems he couldn't be two things at once. His deformed, overly dramatic mother with her thick glasses and outlandish idea. His town called Pringles, and yes I thought of the potato chip brand every time he mentioned the name, his friends there, his teachers. Free flowing thoughts, one blending into the next as he describes their lives under Eva Peron. A time when the poor were encouraged to think they could rise to the middle class.As I said very dense, and I know I probably missed the significance of much, not being overly familiar with this time period. This is, I suspect, that needs a second reading. I believe this is one of those books that one would notice more and more, if read more than once. Right now all I can say was that while I found it interesting, I probably missed more than I took in.