Rainy Pavements

By Pat Jourdan

This collection of nineteen short stories covers domestic and international settings.Often the beginning sets up a fall; the kind shopkeeper becomes a non-person, the adverts turn into lies, the haunting painting comes to life. Included are prizewinning stories from the Molly Keane Award,the Michael McLaverty Award and the Bill Naughton Award shortlist.
"Little-known but gifted poet,Pat Jourdan, of the Liverpool School" - Ian McEwan,p137 in 'Saturday.'

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pat Jourdan
• Release date: Jul 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476408828

Pat Jourdan

Winner of the Molly Keane Short Story Award and runner-up in the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award. First short story collection was Average Sunday Afternoon;second collection = Rainy Pavements; and a novel -Finding Out. Poetry collections -Bedsit Girl, Ainnir Anthology,Turpentine,The Bedsit,Cast-Iron Shore,Liverpool Poets 2008,Citizeness. Mentioned in Ian McEwan's Saturday as " a liitle-known but gifted poet of the Liverpool school..." Editor of The Lantern Review, a magazine of poetry and short prose. Newest novel is "A Small Inheritance," coming to Smashwords soon.

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