Attrib. and Other Stories
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Attrib. and other stories celebrates the tricksiness of language just as it confronts its limits. Correspondingly, the stories are littered with the physical ephemera of language: dictionaries, dog-eared pages, bookmarks and old coffee stains on older books. This is writing that centres on the weird, tender intricacies of the everyday where characters vie to 'own' their words, tell tall tales and attempt to define their worlds.
With affectionate, irreverent and playful prose, the inability to communicate exactly what we mean dominates this bold debut collection from one of Britain’s most original new writers.
Eley Williams
Eley Williams' collection of short stories Attrib. & Other Stories (Influx Press, 2017) won the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her writing appears in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, Liberating the Canon, the TLS and the London Review of Books. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Reviews for Attrib. and Other Stories
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really did enjoy this collection, but I must say, Williams' novel, The Liar's Dictionary, was even more impressive in tone.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This collection of short stories explores the beauty and idiosyncrasy of language, while also highlighting how language is never really enough to fully communicate with other people.
Fun, quirky, beautiful writing.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The prose was liquid, surprising, entertaining, which was good because most stories lacked plots. The language, though, was clear, playful. I would like to write this way.