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Albania & The Moon

Albania & The Moon

Jimmy Wilde
4/5 ( ratings)
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Albania & The Moon is a collection of twenty-one short stories accompanied by thirteen Adrian McMurchie illustrations. It is hard-hitting, yet poetic, urban fiction laced with dark humour and wry social observation. A vivid cast of characters are brought to life in tales of lives on the margins, from the frustrated and disaffected of London flatshares and dead-end Glasgow factory jobs to the highs of clubland and football miracles; from demented dogs, courtroom shenanigans and underground nutjobs to doorstep murder, tequila-snorting romances and bittersweet homecomings.


?Tantalising and well-honed, Albania & The Moon by Jimmy Wilde is reminiscent of the determinedly fixated characters of Murphy-era Beckett, struggling for space and struggling to fit in a world where everybody is on the move but not necessarily going forward. Amidst the Kelman-esque defiance, there?s a fine range of work with some of the shorter pieces, Lights Out, Curtains, Dots and Bitten By Nostalgia poetry in all but line-breaks and, as such, as good as anything I?ve read in recent years.?
Gordon Legge


"By turns pity and pitiless, Wilde deploys weapons-grade imagery to detonate stories that singe the sensibilities."
Andrew Smith, The Scotsman


"Jimmy Wilde's writing is as crisp as Raymond Carver's..."
Des Dillon
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Kindle Edition

Albania & The Moon

Jimmy Wilde
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Albania & The Moon is a collection of twenty-one short stories accompanied by thirteen Adrian McMurchie illustrations. It is hard-hitting, yet poetic, urban fiction laced with dark humour and wry social observation. A vivid cast of characters are brought to life in tales of lives on the margins, from the frustrated and disaffected of London flatshares and dead-end Glasgow factory jobs to the highs of clubland and football miracles; from demented dogs, courtroom shenanigans and underground nutjobs to doorstep murder, tequila-snorting romances and bittersweet homecomings.


?Tantalising and well-honed, Albania & The Moon by Jimmy Wilde is reminiscent of the determinedly fixated characters of Murphy-era Beckett, struggling for space and struggling to fit in a world where everybody is on the move but not necessarily going forward. Amidst the Kelman-esque defiance, there?s a fine range of work with some of the shorter pieces, Lights Out, Curtains, Dots and Bitten By Nostalgia poetry in all but line-breaks and, as such, as good as anything I?ve read in recent years.?
Gordon Legge


"By turns pity and pitiless, Wilde deploys weapons-grade imagery to detonate stories that singe the sensibilities."
Andrew Smith, The Scotsman


"Jimmy Wilde's writing is as crisp as Raymond Carver's..."
Des Dillon
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Kindle Edition

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