The pier falls, and other stories
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The pier falls, and other stories
Vintage, 2017
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First published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in 2016
Contents of Works
- The pier falls
- The island
- Bunny
- Wodwo
- The gun
- The woodpecker and the wolf
- Breathe
- The boys who left home to learn fear
- The weir
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first collection of stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise.
'Terrifically compelling' Guardian
A seaside pier collapses.
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong.
A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room.
One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean.
Another woman is saved from drowning.
Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox.
A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle.
A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve.
'The real redemption in these superbly gripping stories comes from their canny human detail, and the vivid, unsettling clarity they bring to our lives' Sunday Times
by "Nielsen BookData"