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We Will
Breathe Again
by Richard Brock
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US price:
$10.95
UK price:
£9.49
Format:
Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 108
ISBN:
0-595-29980-6
Published:
Oct-2003
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A
collection of short stories
of romance, violence,
bigotry, self-discovery and
therapeutic genealogy set
over a century-and-a-half of
British industrial history!
Visit the author's website
at
www.wewillbreatheagain.co.uk
Book Description
A macho
struggle for supremacy over
a barbecue; a young boy’s
daydream carved on a wall; a
snatched moment of passion
in a cramped tunnel deep
underground; two obsessive
genealogists united by a
century-old tragedy; and one
man’s bizarre
newspaper-buying habits.
These
unforgettable moments
chronicle the lives of a
diverse range of characters,
played out against a
backdrop of over 150 years
of British industrial
history. The author explores
the effects—both protective
and oppressive—of industrial
communities on those who
live at the heart of them.
His lucid prose vividly
depicts the humanity of the
individual struggling to
gain a footing in this world
of mass-identity, and the
devastating consequences of
the industrial decay of the
late Twentieth Century on
those whose lives have been
built around it.
This
finely crafted short story
collection introduces a
fresh and youthful new voice
in fiction.
“The
hardship people have had to
suffer here has always been
economic rather than ethnic.
It’s the kind of hardship
that breaks communities and
families apart rather than
drawing them together. That
kind of tragedy is just too
fractured, I’m afraid.
There’s no poetry in
it.”
With a
wry yet urgent style that
will appeal to fans of
Dornford Yates and Colum
McCann, Richard Brock makes
full use of his varied cast
of eccentrics, misfits,
daydreamers and romantics,
to tell intensely personal
stories in the most
impersonal of settings.
These
stories, of peculiar gifts,
forbidden romances and
revolutionary aspirations,
squeeze every last ounce of
poetry from the often stark
situations in which the
characters find themselves,
resonating throughout with
the optimism implicit in the
promise “We’ll breathe
again.”
About the author
Richard
Brock was born in 1981 and
grew up in a small village
near Barnsley, where his
family still lives. At
present he divides his time
between the family home and
Leeds, where, when he is not
dreaming of winning the
Nobel Prize for Literature,
he is studying for a degree
in English and Linguistics.
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We
will Breathe Again -
Richard Brock
