Price £9.99
Format Paperback and ebook
Published 17 Feb 2014
Length 296 pages
ISBN 9781905559633
ISBN 9781905559671 (ebook)
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Death & Texas
Clive Sinclair
Clive Sinclair's first collection of stories won the Somerset Maugham Award.
His second was short-listed for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Award.
His third won both the PEN Silver Pen, and the Jewish Quarterly Award for fiction.
This is his fourth.
The new stories range from New Orleans and Texas to Peru and Venice.
Their subjects are loss, the fear of loss, and love, most especially that between husbands and wives, fathers and sons.
Their cast includes the quick and the dead, the real and the imagined: Davy Crockett, Kinky Friedman, Captain Haddock, Princess Diana, and Shylock.
They are as cruel as life, and as funny.
'Sinclair writes with a playful intelligence in which clichés are revitalised and metaphors milked for their literal meanings ... The humour may not be for those of a refined disposition but it is driven by vigorous, inventive language. Sinclair delivers his words with the energy, pace and swing of a top-class fast bowler.'
Gerald Jacobs, The Telegraph
About Clive Sinclair
The recipient of various prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Jewish Quarterly Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Fiction, Clive Sinclair was selected as one of the original Best of Young British Novelists in 1983. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and held a doctorate from the University of East Anglia. He taught there, at the University of Uppsala, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where his son Seth was born.
Clive lived in London with the artist Haidee Becker until his death on 5 March 2018.
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TLS: ‘... shows Clive Sinclair... still testing the depth of his power.’
'What's the best Bristish short story' asked the Guardian books blog...
"If you are looking for simple joy in one story, try Clive Sinclair's subversive account of a rabbi who turns into a pig in A Bad End, from his latest collection Death and Texas.” Cathy Galvin
Cathy Galvin is founder of the Sunday Times EFG short story award and director of Word Factory
From the Guardian Books Blog, 10 June 2014
Jewish Renaissance: ‘... a lot of fun if you like the sort of anarchic plot line that never reveals where it's going next.’
The Telegraph: 'Sinclair writes with a playful intelligence in which clichés are revitalised and metaphors milked for their literal meanings ... The humour may not be for those of a refined disposition but it is driven by vigorous, inventive language. Sinclair delivers his words with the energy, pace and swing of a top-class fast bowler.' Gerald Jacobs
The Jewish Chronicle : 'Death & Texas is Clive Sinclair at his very best. And short stories don't come much better than that.' David Herman
Contrappasso Magazine interview Clive Sinclair:
"Perhaps I am best characterized as a travel writer too shy to embrace the locals, therefore forced to people the exotic locations with my own inventions."