Author : Wendy Perriam
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Dreams, Demons and Desire by : Wendy Perriam
Download or read book Dreams, Demons and Desire written by Wendy Perriam and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendy Perriam's first collection of short stories is remarkable for its range. A docile civil servant chooses the public baths as the setting for his private Armageddon; a widow's new false nails are the unlikely trigger for her release from pent-up grief; a couple bereft without their beloved dog conjure it into existence; a frustrated Sunday painter devours eleven farmhouse loaves at a sitting. Many of the characters are fighting personal demons -- anger, fear, jealousy, obsession -- or are torn between submission and murderous revenge. Others are dreamers, inhabiting their own secret worlds, or forced to come to terms with loss -- loss of certainty and security, of faith, innocence or freedom. Love goes spectacularly wrong: spouses, moving along parallel lines, fail to commune; sons defy mothers; mothers mourn lost daughter; lovers are symbolically exterminated.