The Scenic Railway

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A dying man finds affirmation in a career to which he had unsuccessfully given his life, a retired and cautious man finally has the courage to ask the woman he loves if she will come to live with him, a dying woman's dreams of revolutionary events seem to be coming true -- Upward's stories give ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary.

• The Scenic Railway available on February 01 2015 from Buy for 16.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9781900564656 ξ1 registered February 01 2015
  
• Product category is Book

A dying man finds affirmation in a career to which he had unsuccessfully given his life, a retired and cautious man finally has the courage to ask the woman he loves if she will come to live with him, a dying woman's dreams of revolutionary events seem to be coming true -- Upward's stories give ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary. These five new, carefully rendered, quiet tales retain that unique mix of art and politics so crucial to the literature of the 1930s and 1940s for which he and his circle were so famous.

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