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SUMMARY:An Evening with C. D. Rose: Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are thrilled to welcome C. D. Rose to discuss his new short story collection\, Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea\, with Dr. Keith Crome. This is a stunning collection of 15 short\, dreamlike stories about memory\, illusion and language from the author of The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure\, Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else\, and most recently The Blind Accordionist. This event is perfect for fans of short stories and literary fiction alike! \nTickets\nTicket and book: £17.99\nTicket only: £5 (this is redeemable against a copy of the book on the evening) \nAs always\, we have a limited amount of complimentary tickets for this event for anyone who needs it. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com or call 07597365380. \nAbout Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea \nWelcome to the fictional universe of C. D. Rose\, whose stories seem to be set in some unidentifiable but vaguely Mitteleuropean nation\, and likewise have an uncanny sense of timelessness—the time could be some cobblestoned Victorian past era\, or the present\, or even the future. In these 15 dreamlike tales\, you’ll meet a forgotten composer who enters a nostalgic dream-world while marking time in a decaying Romanian seaport; two Russian brothers\, one blind and one deaf\, building an intricate model town during an interminable train ride across the steppe; a journalist whose interview with an artist turns into a dizzying roundelay of memory and image. Ghosts of the past mingle with the quiddities of modernity in a bewitching stew where lost masterpieces surface with translations in an invisible language; where image and photograph become mystically entwined\, and where the very nature of reality takes on a shimmering sense of possibility and illusion. \nAbout the Author \nC. D. Rose is an award-winning short-story writer\, and the author of the novels The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure and Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else\, as well as the story collection The Blind Accordionist. He lives in Hebden Bridge.
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LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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