Hitting Trees with Sticks【電子書籍】[ Jane Rogers ]

＜p＞＜strong＞**Long-listed for the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize**＜br /＞ **Short-listed for the 2013 Edge Hill Short Story Prize**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞A young textile designer quits Britain to work for a Nigerian women’s refuge, confident that this is her one chance to make a difference…＜/p＞ ＜p＞A sixteen-year-old uses his first job, as a window-cleaner, to peer into other people’s lives and carefully plan his own…＜/p＞ ＜p＞A leading scientist spends an evening trying to explain his latest theory to a man who could destroy him...＜br /＞ The characters in Jane Rogers’ first short story collection are each blessed with an unwavering conviction. Buoyed up on self-belief, they enthuse, take calculated risks, and refuse to be deterred by the odds stacked against them. But just as Rogers’ compassion as a writer endears us to their cause, her keen eye shows how fine the balance can be between conviction and self-delusion. At times, her subject seems to be the fallibility of any po．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る