Author : Roger Nash
Publisher : Your Scrivener Press
ISBN 13 : 9781896350431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Book Synopsis The Camera and the Cobra and Other Stories by : Roger Nash
Download or read book The Camera and the Cobra and Other Stories written by Roger Nash and published by Your Scrivener Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Nash gained international acclaim for his title story "The Camera and the Cobra," which won the PEN/O.Henry Prize Story Award, and was anthologized by Anchor Books (PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2009) as one of the twenty best short stories published in North America. Nash's short stories explore a theme less familiar in literature but common in life: how the course of our own day-to-day lives can be deeply ambiguous, a sheer mystery to us. He explores the tragedy and humour of this, over a rich variety of lives and situations, sometimes realistically leaving the mystery and loose-ends of life teasingly unresolved for both his characters and readers. He shows how the phrase "mystery writing" can be richly and revealingly extended beyond its more usual application to crimes and their solution, to the weave of everyday life.