Jigs & Reels

Jigs & Reels

by JoanneHarris (Author)

Synopsis

Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear: in these twenty-two short stories from the author of "Holy Fools" and "Five Quarters of the Orange", the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive and the disturbing are never more than one step away. "Jigs and Reels" is Joanne Harris' first collection of short stories. As she says in her foreword, a good short story can startle, ignite, and illuminate...giving you vivid, anarchic glimpses into different worlds, different people. Here, she proves she is as good as her word by creating an eclectic selection of tales for our times that will delight, surprise, entertain and horrify in equal measure. Sly, funny, sometimes provocative but always personal, "Jigs and Reels" shows a side to Joanne Harris you have never seen before. So go on, be tempted. After all, it's only dancing.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 01 Apr 2004

ISBN 10: 0385606427
ISBN 13: 9780385606424
Book Overview: A book of short stories from the author of CHOCOLAT

Author Bio
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat (made into a major film starring Juliette Binoche), Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, Jigs & Reels, Sleep Pale Sister, Gentlemen & Players and, with Fran Warde, The French Kitchen- A Cookbook and The French Market- More Recipes from a French Kitchen. She lives in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, with her husband and daughter.