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Hobson's Choice and 15 other twist-in-the-tail short stories
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ISBN10: 1909392006
ISBN13: 9781909392007
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 26 2012
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781909392007
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 26 2012
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This is a collection of stories whose endings you can try to predict, but you will almost always get it wrong. From the lottery-winner who inspires enmity in his neighbour, to the fraudulent fortune-teller discovering that she has a psychic gift after all, to the down-trodden schoolboy whose 'daydreams' reveal a crime which he then uses all his ingenuity to expose, a huge range of characters walk through these pages. Some of them are innocent; others, like the greedy property-developer, border on evil; but most of them are human with all the foibles and self-interest inherent in that condition.To read these stories is to share in the author's jaundiced view of the world - a world nonetheless illuminated by flashes of humour, pathos and warmth. You will be hugging yourself with glee at the 'comeuppance' doled out to some characters, and wishing you could dive into the story to give a timely warning to others. You will certainly be turning the pages rapidly to see what happens ...
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