Hard Shoulder
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ISBN 0 9535895 0 1
Price : 6.99
Hard Shoulder by Jackie Gay and Julia Bell (eds)
Winner of the Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize 2000
'Birmingham comes alive in this vibrant collection... sharp urban blues... a streetwise, sussed collection... much imagination, articulacy and creativity' Big Issue
• Two Asian teenagers invent their own secret postcode...
• A drug dealer boozes and loses his way in the dark...
• A lonely women finds dead meat sexier than living...
• A Ford Capri is gutted and so is its owner...
• Two barmaids put a bitter twist in the cocktail of friendship. . .
'The tang of this great city, so under-explored in modern literature, has never been so vividly or diversely conveyed' Jonathan Coe's book of the year, New Statesman
'First-rate talent in the second city: This collection unveils promising new writing talent shaped by the experience of growing up in England's second city. The final story leaves its protagonists alone in the cold hitching back to Birmingham. By this point I wanted to join her' Independent on Sunday