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The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories

By: Publication details: United Kingdom; Faber & Faber; 2013Description: 172 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780571304509
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.91
Summary: "It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind ...the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father...'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. "The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board' ...is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre." (Times Literary Supplement (1944)).
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi In Store 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn Book Bazaar PKLC003619
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore In Store 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn PKLC015148
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"It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind ...the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father...'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. "The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board' ...is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre." (Times Literary Supplement (1944)).

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