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  The Scent of Cinnamon: and Other Stories (Hardback) By (author) Charles Lambert

  

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  Short Description for The Scent of CinnamonFeatures stories that deal with life, love, loneliness, delusion, misunderstanding and death. In this work, the stories' settings range across time and space, from the colonial outback in the late nineteenth century to contemporary urban life in London and Rome and Paris, to both warring sides of the Second World War.
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  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Published: 15 October 2008
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9781844714964 ISBN 10: 1844714969
  • Sales rank: 165,086

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• These prize-winning stories deal with life, love, loneliness, delusion, misunderstanding and death. An office worker wakes to find his body invaded by a mysterious parasite. A desperate woman seeks escape through fire. A girl who knows only the forest is taken to the city for the first time. A solitary young boy conjures a girl from leaves to replace his twin sister. In one story a governess is forced to come to terms with the truth of the family she has loved and served, and the world in which she lives. In another, a one-night stand with a sadist triggers a meditation on sexual pleasure and serial killers. Some characters look for work, for ways to change their lives, for somewhere new to live; others for someone to love or be loved by, or to hurt. Not everyone is good. Not everyone is honest with himself or herself. Not everyone gets what they want, or deserve.The stories' settings range across time and space, from the colonial outback in the late nineteenth century to contemporary urban life in London and Rome and Paris, to both warring sides of the Second World War. The tone is comic, dry, satirical, vivid, magical, disturbing, poignant and spare. Not a word is wasted in these stories, which describe the world not only as it is and was, but also as it might be.