The Courtyard and Other Stories

by Peter Thornton

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[ A journalist inherits property and forgets his own address . . . [ A brief encounter between strangers on a ferry becomes a turning point . . . [ A lover of silence evolves a strategy for survival in a world of intolerable noise . . . [ A grandson discovers at his grandfathers hospital bed that he has never really known him . . . [ The perpetrator of a perfect murder deliberately confesses his crime . . . [ A cardiac patient drifts in and out of consciousness . . . [ A Foreign Correspondent returns to the drab seaside town of his birth . . . [ A thread of fate leads from Frankfurt to the North of England . . . [ A scholar discovers a clue to the authorship of Shakespeares plays . . . [[[[ Fourteen unusual stories. Frequently dark and disturbing, sometimes poignant in their exploration of relationships between men and women, often melancholy, occasionally ironical and humorous, but always imaginative, surprising, allusive, stimulating.
  • ISBN10 0955975611
  • ISBN13 9780955975615
  • Publish Date 14 October 2008
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 June 2012
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Xeno Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 300
  • Language English