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A collection of short stories from contemporary writers on the pains, pleasures and horrors of drinking.

Drinking stories are told by drunks, or about drunks; they are told in pubs, or set in pubs. They are stories where people drink, and stories which somehow induce a sense of drunkenness in readers and listeners. Anton Chekhov may or may not have drunkenly compared the experience of reading a short story to downing a shot of vodka, and F. Scott Fitzgerald claimed that a good short story could “be written on a bottle.” Here is a collection of contemporary short stories written on and about bottles – stories about the comedies, tragedies, pleasures, pains and horrors of alcohol – all of which can be downed like (and perhaps with) a glass of vodka.

Edited with an introduction by Karen Stevens and Jonathan Taylor, contributors include some of the best short story writers in the UK today: Judith Allnatt, Jenn Ashworth, Laurie Cusack, Desmond Barry, Louis de Bernières, Jane Feaver, Cathy Galvin, Alison Moore, Kate North, Bethan Roberts, Jane Roberts, Hannah Stevens, Michael Stewart, David Swann, Melanie Whipman, and Sue Wilsea.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: High Spirits
• Author: Jonathan Taylor
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 196
• EAN: 9781912436323
• ISBN: 1912436329
• ID: 24141594
• Publisher: Valley Press
• Weight: 322 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 135 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2019

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