The Burning Ground
Author(s): Adam O'Riordan
A masterful debut short story collection from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed poet Adam O'Riordan
In these eight stories, an English writer focuses his gaze on America's West Coast, moving from fractured lives in remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach. A man visits his long-distance lover in Los Angeles; the foreman of a desert building project embarks on a journey into California's underworld; an artist finds peace in exile after the disintegration of an affair; and itinerant Brits discuss love and acting in downtown LA. Written with an outsider's keen eye, this collection paints an intimate portrait of diverse lives, in a work of remarkable beauty and poignancy.
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A masterful debut short story collection from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed poet Adam O'Riordan
Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982 and read English at Oxford University. In 2008 O'Riordan became the youngest Writer in Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection of poetry, In the Flesh, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. He is Academic Director of the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Burning Ground is his first collection of short stories.
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General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 11 January 2018
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2018
- : books
Special Fields
- : 208
- : 823.92
- : Paperback
- : Adam O'Riordan