Chemistry and Other Stories

Chemistry and Other Stories
Tim Pears
RRP:
NZ$ 22.99
Our Price:
NZ$ 18.39
Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 272pg
23 Jun 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781526623416
Out Of Stock
Currently no stock in-store, stock is sourced to your order
A wife compulsively digs in her garden. Two brothers, long estranged, reunite for a terse, heady summer. A woman flies to Krakow to see her adult son. At dusk, a teenage girl pushes her dying mother out into the sea. A small boy sits on his own in the cinema, entranced by the cowboys who light up the screen. With these short stories, Tim Pears illuminates a series of blazing moments in quiet lives - the tragic, strange, funny and beautiful fragments that make and unmake us - and shines a light into the gulfs that lie between us and those who should know us best.
Goodness, Tim Pears writes beautifully . . . the descriptions of rural life, executed with painterly exactness, are a constant delight. The prose really sings * Mail on Sunday * This is it. This is the real thing. This is whatever I mean by the work of a born writer . . . Comic and wry and elegiac and shrewd and thoughtful all at once. Please read it -- A S Byatt His prose is luminous, drawing in the reader . . . Pears' fiction has been likened to Thomas Hardy' s, and the comparison is apposite . . . Powerful, vivid and humane -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer * Tim Pears deserves a place among the best rural writers . . . An exemplary historical novelist with a Romantic eye for nature . . . This heady walk through the forgotten lanes of England thrums with life * The Times * A gifted storyteller, steeped in country lore and the beauty of ordinary events. Like Thomas Hardy whose kindred spirit quietly animates these pages, he is concerned with the dignity of work, the force of destiny and the consequences of human passion * New York Times * Reminiscent of Faulkner and Garcia Marquez, the writing retains a very English scale . . . Sensitive, heart-warming and hallucinatory * Financial Times * The writing is so genuine. Nothing is posturing or romanticised. The characters really touched me. There' s so much talent here -- Barbara Trapido It is most beautifully written, hypnotic as Proust, very funny and full of love that doesn' t cloy . . . It is a dreamy, easy, wonderful read -- Jane Gardam Makes it quite possible to believe in magic -- Sunday Times Highly atmospheric . . . It had an intoxicating, magical quality which completely beguiled me -- Jeremy Paxman * Independent *
Tim Pears is the winner of a Lannan Prize and the author of ten novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In a Land of Plenty (made into a ten-part BBC series), Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2011, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011) and most recently the critically acclaimed West Country Trilogy. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Reading Round Lector, and has taught creative writing for Arvon, the University of Oxford, First Story and Ruskin College, among others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He and his wife live in Oxford. They have two children.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781526623416
Published: 23 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 272

In stock - for items in stock we aim to dispatch the next business day. For delivery in NZ allow 2-5 business days, with rural taking a wee bit longer.

Locally sourced in NZ - stock comes from a NZ supplier with an approximate delivery of 7-15 business days.

International Imports - stock is imported into NZ, depending on air or sea shipping option from the international supplier stock can take 10-30 working days to arrive into NZ. 

Pre-order Titles - delivery will vary depending on where the title is published, if local stock is available in NZ then 5-7 business days, for international imports it can be 10-30 business days. In all cases we will access the quickest supply option.

Delivery Packaging - we ship all items in cardboard sleeves or by box with either packing paper or corn starch chips. (We avoid using plastics bubble bags)

Tracking - Orders are delivered by track and trace courier and are fully insured, tracking information will be sent by email once dispatched.

View our full Order & Delivery information