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Attrib. and other stories

Eley Williams

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This debut collection from Eley Williams centres upon the difficulties of communication and the way in which one’s thoughts — absurd, encompassing, oblique — may never be fully communicable and yet can overwhelm.

Attrib. and other stories celebrates the tricksiness of language just as it confronts its limits. Correspondingly, the stories are littered with the physical ephe ...more

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Feb 26, 2018 Hugh rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-2018, r-of-c-shortlist, favourites, james-tait-black-winners, to-reread, modern-lit

When I decided to read the shortlist for the Republic of Consciousness prize, this was the book I was most looking forward to, partly because it was mentioned in a few of the papers' best of the year lists at the end of last year. It did not disappoint me at all - Eley Williams is clearly a talented writer, and this playful, quirky collection is a pleasure to read.

In general, I find short story collections very difficult to review - I don't like the story by story dissection as a form, and I oft ...more

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Sep 10, 2017 Gumble's Yard rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2018-republic-of-consciousness-long, 2017, 2018-republic-of-consciousness-shrt, 2018r, roc-prize-winners

Winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize (for which I was a judge) and listed in the Guardian as my Book of the Year for 2017.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...

And now winner of the James Tait novel prize- Britain's longest running literary prize to go with its newest in the RoC.

This book is published by the UK small publisher Influx Press which “publish stories from the margins of culture, specific geographical spaces and sites of resistance that remain under explored in mainstream ...more

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Mar 13, 2017 Blair rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017-release, short-stories, read-on-kindle

I had pre-ordered Attrib. and other stories, and I read the first story one insomniac late night, as soon as I received it. I could hardly believe it was real; I thought it might have been a dream. I read it again the next day.

Attrib. is like that. It's so unlike what I was expecting. I'm so used to debut short story collections by women being deadpan and wilfully horrible, full of impassive descriptions of sex and depression. That's not to say I haven't loved some books fitting that description ...more

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Sep 27, 2018 Violet wells rated it liked it

Shelves: 21st-century

This is a very nudge nudge wink wink kind of book. Very self-consciously clever and a little bit pleased with itself. It reminded me at times of someone who goes on the dancefloor to send up the whole concept of dancing, someone playing up to an audience of fellow scoffers. How amusing you find this depends largely on your mood. Dancing can look like a ridiculous pastime; on the other hand it can also exalt the human form to its quintessence. As can, in my view, traditional storytelling that dep ...more

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Sep 30, 2017 Paul Fulcher rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2017, indy-presses, republic-of-consciousness-2018

Winner of the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize for 'gorgeous prose and hardcore literary fiction' from small, independent presses.

The plot of this is not and will not be obvious.

Influx Press is another of the UK's small, independent presses, source of much of the really exciting development in literary fiction, their specific mission to publishing innovative and challenging fiction and creative non-fiction [...] stories from the margins of culture, specific geographical spaces and sites of Winner of the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize for 'gorgeous prose and hardcore literary fiction' from small, independent presses.

The plot of this is not and will not be obvious.

Influx Press is another of the UK's small, independent presses, source of much of the really exciting development in literary fiction, their specific mission to publishing innovative and challenging fiction and creative non-fiction [...] stories from the margins of culture, specific geographical spaces and sites of resistance that remain under explored in mainstream literature. And thanks to them for the ARC of this book.

'Attrib. and other stories' is Eley Williams debut collection, although some of the pieces have featured elsewhere notably in The White Review and 3:am magazine.

It is a beautiful collection, which stands out for its love of, and use of, language, itself often associated with the love of a (sometimes departed) partner.

In The Alphabet the narrator is suffering from progressive Aphasia (the world's yours for the mistaking she tells herself) and her partner has left her (never said, but given her partner's love for puns and language, the frustrations of the narrator's condition may have been a trigger). As she searches for her glasses she also searches for words, and explores her love of language:

I completely lost it (the plot - not the glasses, they're only mislaid) about two weeks ago around the same time as a mislaid you. If you were here you would make a filthy joke about my use of that word, about you being miss laid.
[...]
I have swept so many words under my tongue and out of the porches of my ear, out of sight and out of mind. Over the years your ears must have become spoked and fairly bristling with my Xs and Ks and Ts and teasing.

And she recalls how on their very first date, she was asked what was her favourite letter, although when she asks the reverse question she receives the reply:

'I consider favourite letters to be a better indicator of personality than star signs' you had said, and I had thought, oh great, this person's a massive weirdo and is going to try to inculcate me into a reiki-practising cheese-cloth wearing bewhiskered cult or sect, because I use words like inculcate without thinking twice even though I knew at the time that it was unadvised. Inadvised. But by God you were charming, said the other half of my brain. Cult leaders often are, replied the first half. GO ATROPHY ON A STALK, said the second half and it did, I think. Thank goodness. You had evaded my question, I couldn't help but notice.

A is a snapped Eiffel Tower. The shape of it. If you were interested in A as a letter I'd assume that you were only interested in half-finishing projects, you said.

Now, on her own she goes through her own mental alphabet, including:

The letter P is cuckoo-spit on the length of a chive, cooling in the dew dawn. Q is a monocle discarded. We always had time for eccentricity - we watched a battered VHS of My Fair Lady and drama whenever a word game presented itself. R is a thrown magnifying glass, embedded in a wall.

In "Synaesthete, Would Like To Meet", the narrator suffers from Neurological Synaesthesia. Wikipedia defines it as "a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway" but the story defines it more eloquently as:

Dawn's light through my curtain stinks, my cup of tea is an orchestra tuning up and the sound of birdsong outside my window tastes of rosewater and is scalding.
[...]
Pick up any paperback that uses too many mixed metaphors and that is my day-to-day, with all attempts at clarity squandered by confusing, muddled leaps of imagery.

"Alight at the Next" has the narrator attempting to leave a train with her partner, only to find a man committing one of the deadly sins of commuting, perhaps 2nd only to standing on the left, namely entering the carriage before passengers have alighted, and she finds herself, against her usual behaviour, confronting him:

and I make a boiled sound, because I am the first to admit that my spirit animal is probably a buttered roll, that I create characters and situations where I am brave for the same reasons some people love the stuffing of caught birds. Pigeons get caught on the carriages sometimes: I’ve seen it, Oyster in my pocket, spring in my steptoes. I forget, sometimes, what preclude and nascent mean. It has been a long day for everybody, even for pigeons, and it is forgetfulness that makes me brave to the sound of this gamelan of joists and hot-steamed-grit-zoom pulling into stations, braver than before, when the pre-you afternoon got jumbled with you-evening at rush hour, where throats squirmed with the old smoke and stream of tunnels: a world pinstriped by eyelashes, uproarious with the need for a Friday, downroarius with lost cards –

there are earphones trailing from this man’s neck and they squeak
with chords that have the obtuse delicacy of a dove retching –

the thought of you unscrews my head

and if you record the rip of glacier through ice and modulate its frequency it sounds of whale-song, and we often have cause to think of glaciers and their place and pace on the District Line –

"chords that have the obtuse delicacy of a dove retching" - what a wonderful image!

As one story comments: What’s a sentence, really, if not time spent alone? These are sentences with which it is worth spending time alone. ...more

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Sep 10, 2017 Neil rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-rofc, 2017

NOW RE-READ AFTER ITS INCLUSION ON THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS LONG LIST.

Attrib. And Other Stories is published by Influx Press, one of the UK’s small, independent publishers. On it’s website, Influx Press says it’s mission is to "…publish stories from the margins of culture, specific geographical spaces and sites of resistance that remain under explored in mainstream literature."

If you had asked me a few months ago, I would have told you that I wasn’t really interested in short stories and mu ...more

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May 28, 2018 But_i_thought_ rated it really liked it

Shelves: experimental, short-story-collection

Republic of Consciousness Prize Winner 2018

This debut is remarkable, not for its plot (there isn’t any), nor for its characters (they are mere shadows), but for its delicious, bewitching prose.

The 17 stories that make up this collection all chronicle those moments in life when time stands still – the silence after a telephonic breakup, the gnawing agony before a first kiss, the slumbering half-thoughts when waking up in bed next to a loved one – told mostly by nameless, genderless narrators wit ...more

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Jun 30, 2018 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: republic-of-consciousness-award, read2018, short-stories, own

Several friends told me I'd love this collection and they were right! Williams takes such pleasure in wordplay (in a non annoying way) that these stories feel joyful. My favorite was "Synaesthete, Would Like To Meet." There is also a thread of someone who left and the narrator trails through the stories speaking to the invisible "you," the way you do when everything you think relates to the person you have loved and lost. ...more

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Mar 11, 2017 Helen McClory added it

Language!
Wordplay!
A Dead Whale!
Tense alluring moments in an airing cupboard!

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Dec 04, 2017 Nathalie (keepreadingbooks) rated it it was amazing

I believe this is my first 5-star short story collection, ever. I could end the review right here, because that says plenty in itself – though I’ve read a fair few 4-star collections. But I very much want to share a few thoughts on these brilliant stories.

First of all, I’ve never had so many favourites in one collection. I feel like mentioning all of them, so you know what, I’ll go ahead and do that: Attrib., Swatch, Bs, Fears and Confessions of an Ortolan Chef, Mischief, Spines, and Spins. All I believe this is my first 5-star short story collection, ever. I could end the review right here, because that says plenty in itself – though I’ve read a fair few 4-star collections. But I very much want to share a few thoughts on these brilliant stories.

First of all, I’ve never had so many favourites in one collection. I feel like mentioning all of them, so you know what, I’ll go ahead and do that: Attrib., Swatch, Bs, Fears and Confessions of an Ortolan Chef, Mischief, Spines, and Spins. All absolutely amazing. I have several more that are close seconds. In short, this is a collection that very nearly blew me away with every single story.

The book’s description promises a celebration of ‘the trickiness of language’ and a focus on the difficulty of communicating one’s true thoughts and feelings, and that is exactly what you get. Many of the stories involve dictionary excerpts or other reflections on words and their meaning or pronunciation and they are flawlessly woven into the story. There is a rhythm to the stories that seems so natural and so ingenious that I imagine the words flowing from Williams’ hand effortlessly, with no pretense or ambition involved whatsoever. This is probably wishful thinking, but that is how it feels.

Some of the stories follow a similar pattern. The first three or four stories started in an explosion of information about something seemingly random and you have no clue what’s going on. The scene gradually expands, the background information is filled in and sorted, and it turns out the scene isn’t nearly as bizarre as it seemed at first. It makes sense. And it makes sense in brilliant ways. The rest are more ‘regular’, if that is a thing, where a scene is set right away and the background information filled in in doses.

One, perhaps two, stories didn’t make much sense to me, but the rest were the best I’ve read in a long time. I will recommend this to anyone with any interest in ‘the trickiness of language’ and beautiful, (seemingly) effortless writing!

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Mar 04, 2018 Tim rated it it was amazing

Shelves: republic-of-consciousness-2018

Wow! Blown away by how stimulating, witty, beautiful, human, and gorgeously written this is. I'm not typically one for short story collections, but I genuinely did not want this to end so soon. ...more

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Mar 07, 2018 Doug rated it really liked it

3.5, rounded up.

As I have mentioned before, I'm not a huge fan of the short story collection format (one or two stories are fine, but back to back I just get antsy for something meatier - it just seems to be an entire meal of appetizers, when I am longing for an entrée). That said, for the most part Williams' debut collection succeeds admirably, and she is both quirky and often fun to read, with some delicious and intelligent wordplay.

But as with any collection, there have to be a few duds, and ...more

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Jan 10, 2018 Jonathan Pool rated it liked it

Shelves: rupublic-of-consciousness

Attrib. turned out to be a much more complex reading experience than I had expected, and ultimately more fulfilling too.
There are seventeen stories in 158 pages. That's a lot of stories-too many; and some are very short and I think it's unrealistic to suppose that every one is going to hit the mark; some of the stories are little more than musings and for my money they disrupt the flow and momentum that mark the best books, and short story collections.
Hence my mediocre three star rating overall ...more

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Sep 29, 2017 Jackie Law rated it really liked it

Attrib. (and other stories), by Eley Williams, is a collection of seventeen short stories exploring the difficulties inherent in human communication. The author wields her prose with sensory precision. Her words and the silences between convey both the beauty and the grotesque nature of relationships. They reveal the distance between internal thought processes and their articulation.

Each tale captures a moment and the attendant waterfall of words cascading inside a protagonist’s head. These incl Attrib. (and other stories), by Eley Williams, is a collection of seventeen short stories exploring the difficulties inherent in human communication. The author wields her prose with sensory precision. Her words and the silences between convey both the beauty and the grotesque nature of relationships. They reveal the distance between internal thought processes and their articulation.

Each tale captures a moment and the attendant waterfall of words cascading inside a protagonist’s head. These include simple observations, tangential dreams and unspoken aspirations. The difficulty of conveying even a fraction of understanding demonstrates the limitations of dialogue. A hand held, a kiss or a silence can say more than many words.

The collection opens with The Alphabet in which the narrator is slowly losing their vocabulary due to aphasia. As time passes their abilities deteriorate despite concerted efforts to slow degeneration. The telling is both poignant and piercing.

Swatch presents two young boys sitting in a cramped cupboard during a game of hide and seek. Peter considers objects through a lens coloured by the paints his father utilises. Stuart’s interests as they wait to be found are more prosaic.

I enjoyed Smote for the anguish of the narrator over whether or not to attempt a simple action, the consequences of which they chew on fiercely before having the decision taken from them. I will not pretend to understand all references made, as was the case with several stories, but the undercurrents still resonated.

Birdsong makes a recurring appearance, as does the complexity of lovers’ relationships and their misunderstandings. In And Back Again the protagonist ponders the possibility of proving their devotion by acting out the lyrics of a song despite being told clearly by the object of their affections how ridiculous they would consider such a gesture. The question hovers, who any romantic deed benefits the most.

Fears and Confessions of an Ortolan Chef had me Googling to see if this grotesque practice had any basis in reality. I was distressed to find it did. Also distressing, for similar reasons, was Spines. Although an excellent study of the compromises made in order to maintain relationships the unnecessary and casual cruelty to small creatures had me in tears.

Platform considers a stranger inadvertently captured in a photograph during a moment missed by the narrator at the time due to their own concerns. It is a reminder that the whole world turns wherever we are with our own lives.

These stories offer much to contemplate alongside the original plot arcs and feats of expression. The moments of quiet brutality left me raw with their honesty, but this was a worthwhile read.

My copy of this book was provided gratis by the publisher, Influx Press. ...more

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Feb 05, 2019 Ygraine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

“related—where are my glasses? for some reason i find that if i say,

‘glasses. glasses?’

in an authoritative way while searching for them it seems more likely that i shall find them or that i will somehow invoke them into being. this is a strategy that does not work for finding one’s dignity nor for finding you but glasses—possibly. announcing my intention to find them at least conveys a sense of control as i dither around picking up ornaments and looking under curtains. there is a paper published ...more

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Sep 03, 2018 WndyJW rated it it was amazing

Shelves: indie-press, short-story-collections

All good things must come to an end and, sadly, today I have come to the end of the delightful, playfully loquacious, wholly unique collection of Eley Williams’ short pieces. They aren’t exactly stories, although they tell a story, they are rides through Ms Williams mind that a word or image has triggered.

I have never read anything like these stories (for lack of a better word) and I did not want to finish this book. Ms Williams uses words and sounds and images better than any artist uses any m ...more

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Oct 25, 2020 Eric Anderson rated it really liked it

The short stories in Eley Williams' debut collection may not have any concrete connection to each other, but many of them depict brief moments of emotional drama. However, instead of burrowing into the characters' feelings or reasons for these instances of lovers breaking up and other life changes, the stories are filled with seemingly trivial, distracted trails of thought that we follow through until the apparent crisis has passed. This technique might feel hollow if it weren't for the skilful ...more

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Mar 16, 2017 Simon Pitt rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favourites

This really is a fantastic collection - I've been reading Williams' stories for years and been waiting for this with glee. The stories are filled with wit, humour and verbal wordplay - and a breadth of cultural references.

You never quite know where each story is going to take you. Many feel inspired by intriguing, unusual situations - the rat that sniffs out mines, Stendhal syndrome (being overcome by works of art), aphasia (a condition that makes you lose your language ability), and a dish tha ...more

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Jan 15, 2018 Jennifer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2017-republic-of-consciousness, favorites, uk, short-stories

Pushing the limits of language to tell stories of relationships, many just ended, in very unique and clever ways. Brilliant!

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Feb 14, 2021 Nadine rated it it was amazing

I read this short book of very short stories over the course of three months, so I remember almost nothing about any individual story, but overall I remember feeling like I was listening to the characters' inner voice - not as described by the author, not an interior monologue, but the actual voice the characters hear when they think to themselves. These characters often have a charmingly direct, yet whimsical way of thinking. One describes the red tie of a man on the Tube looking like a "botche ...more

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Jan 12, 2018 Elizabeth rated it it was amazing

Pin-sharp, smart, succinct stories that play with language, words and meaning, covering topics as diverse as aphasia, kissing in front of paintings, hedgehogs in swimming pools and rats that can smell landmines. Come for the wordplay, stay for the raw emotion and brilliance.

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Feb 07, 2021 TimInCalifornia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-post-1967, queer, shorts

Brilliant. After a couple of disappointing short story collections, reading (listening) to this collection was exhilirating. Love, love, love what Eley Williams can do with language. The full power and humor of words are at her command, and she tells a pretty good story too.

A favorite was the story "Smote (or When I Find I Cannot Kiss You in Front of a Print by Bridget Riley)". It's brilliant for many reasons but I've especially come to appreciate queer identified writers who can thread an eleme ...more

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Jun 18, 2020 Claire Fuller added it

Shelves: country-england, lgbt, prize-winner, read-in-2020, short-stories

Playful, wild, and a little bit crazy. In this short story collection, Eley Williams messes about with language in these stories - often in the first person and addressed to another individual 'you' - from someone who is losing their words, to a character who gets synaesthesia after her sister drops the Yellow Pages on her head, and another who likes to quote the bible at his landmine-searching rat. Many stories are set to a backdrop of frustrated relationships where the narrator is rarely able ...more

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Mar 19, 2017 Laura Waddell added it

Shelves: 2017

Enjoyed this. Is well described by its description commenting on "the trickiness of language." There is a story on synaesthesia, which is apt, as the rest of the stories take a synaesthetic approach to language, meaning blooming out in all directions, playfully. There are formal structures at play, too, in dictionary definitions observed and toyed with. Outside of observing language itself, which is the defining characteristic of this book, the stories often focus on relationships, and a couple ...more

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Jun 27, 2019 Farrah Scott rated it it was ok

There was no plot, placement or characterisation, which I’m guessing was deliberate? But if the focus was meant to be the language, then further editing was required to make it have a real impact. There was a lot of needless gumpf and laboured metaphors in between a few scattered, beautiful turns of phrase. However, it did not feel like it was worth reading through the rest of the prose to get to get to those moments.
Having said all of this, I enjoyed ‘Spines’ very much, in which Williams focus ...more

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Mar 01, 2018 Robert Lukins rated it it was amazing

The tricks of language untangled and retangled. It's precise, funny, and moving. Often in that order. ...more

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Apr 29, 2017 Possibly in Michigan, London rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I like themed/interlinked short story collections, whether the individual stories are united by character, place or tone. So I loved the fixation on words here that unites Eley Williams' first book, if not all of the relevant stories. 'The Alphabet', the opening, was affecting – it starts off with a lot of wordplay on misplacing and losing things and then turns out to be about aphasia, a devastating condition. I wasn’t sure about 'Rosette', 'Smote (or When I Find I Cannot Kiss You In Front of a I like themed/interlinked short story collections, whether the individual stories are united by character, place or tone. So I loved the fixation on words here that unites Eley Williams' first book, if not all of the relevant stories. 'The Alphabet', the opening, was affecting – it starts off with a lot of wordplay on misplacing and losing things and then turns out to be about aphasia, a devastating condition. I wasn’t sure about 'Rosette', 'Smote (or When I Find I Cannot Kiss You In Front of a Print by Bridget Riley)' 'And Back Again,' or 'Bs' – though the stories are distinct, they rely a lot on the same voice, a kind of hyperactive, obsessive one, which is initially fun but emotionally one-dimensional. A lot (most?) of the stories hinge on sexual repression or unfulfilled desire. This works best when it's part of the story, like the one about the single synaesthete:

'There was no poetic extension, no misfiring of fizzing neurons as you said your name and shook my hand. I followed you to the cafe and as we spoke our coffee tasted of coffee and when we shared it your cake tasted only, gloriously, of cake. All the unnecessary colour and clamour just drained away—an oil spill's fringe of rainbow fading into pure water. In clarity we swapped numbers and arranged to meet again, and as soon as you boarded your bus all the colours and sounds and smells rushed back at me.'

Excellent, right?

I loved 'Fears and Confessions of an Ortolan Chef' – the bird that’s eaten as a delicacy. It probably is tough on your love life, being an ortolan chef. And 'Bulk' was excellent, partly because of all the strange detail about beached whales that the writer brings (and the same with 'Mischief', the landmine-sniffing rat story). The stories about synathesia and the foley artist ('Synaesthete, Would Like to Meet' and 'Attrib.' respectively) hinge on the same devices but they work so well – they both interrogate the life of all the objects that fiction often relegates to a representative bit-part. ...more

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Jul 01, 2018 Leah rated it liked it

Shelves: literary, short-stories

Read for the Futurelearn course How to read a novel, 2018.

[EDIT: I was just listening to Death Cab for Cutie in my car today and it occurred to me that reading this collection is a very similar experience to listening to a well-constructed album. It’s complicated and abstract and never easily understood, but at its heart the emotions are near-universally relatable, and it’s strung together in such a way that it could almost be one person’s - albeit extremely melodramatic - life]

These are less st ...more

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Dec 09, 2017 Joseph Schreiber rated it really liked it

An inventive, if a little uneven, debut collection. Williams clearly loves playing with language and, at her best, she is dazzling. It will be interesting to see where she goes from here. I read this with the Guardian Reading Group and will write a review toward the end of the month—I'd like to see where the discussion and the author chat goes. A longer review can be found here: https://roughghosts.com/2017/12/30/cr... ...more

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Mar 05, 2017 Lara Corona rated it it was amazing

I am fascinated by books that are fascinated by language.

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ELEY WILLIAMS is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of Attrib. and Other Stories and The Liar's Dictionary. Her work has appeared in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, Liberating the Canon, The Times Literary Supplement, and London Review of Books. She lives in London. ...more