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 The Long
Retreating Day
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- by John Gaskin
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- The ten
atmospheric tales which make up The Long Retreating
Day are the stuff of things flickering at
the edge of experience.
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- We
witness a student quarrel which brings forth its own
bitter harvest; ancient gods that live in human nature
are denied or worshipped at fearful cost; hubris at its
darkest in academic life; malevolence that can linger
from the past; and the shadows cast by future events.
Sardonic, dramatic, urbane and sinister, these stories
are grounded in real landscapes and informed by the
strengths and failings of the human spirit.
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- Contents: 'Preface', 'Three Songs of
Youth', 'The Conceit of the Dancing Man', 'Tapiola', 'St
John's Wood', 'The High-Stepping Man', 'The Long
Retreating Day', 'From Lydia with Love and Laughter',
'The Bay Platform', 'Rigor Mortis', 'Road Closed',
'Omega', 'Three Songs of Age'.
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- The
Long Retreating Day is a sewn hardback of 205
pages. Limited to 450 signed copies.
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- Price
£27.50/$55 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN
9781872621968
Reviews
- "Economically written and deeply felt
nightmares of atmospheric subtlety and stark spiritual
horror. . . reaffirming the importance of structure and
lyricism in a genre too often represented by slap-dash
sensationalism." - William Simmons, Hellnotes
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- "if
you like solid, elegant fiction apt to make the act of
reading almost a physical pleasure, then this is a book
you shouldn't miss for any reason. . . . this volume is a
literary gem that everybody should be entitled to enjoy."
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Mario Guslandi, Agony
Column
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- At
their best, Gaskin's stories are excellent...
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Simon Kurt Unsworth, All Hallows
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Page updated 1st July 2008
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