Black Dirt

Black Dirt

Hardback (21 May 2004)

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Publisher's Synopsis

With characters as diverse Christ, the red-breasted robin and kings Arthur and Alfred, BLACK DIRT is the story of Frank - and the stories he tells George and Margaret, his adult children. Frank, lying ill in bed, finds his dying dreams haunted by figures from his past: his parents, and his older sister Iris, whose existence - and terrible crime - he has spent long years struggling to forget. Revealing the dark and sinister shadows that can shape a child's imagination, Nell Leyshon explores the boundaries of fantasy, where the familiar happy-ever-after ending of folk-tales, fairy-stories and fable is far from certain. Written in a lyrical yet spare style, BLACK DIRT explores the guilty silences that bind family members together - and sometimes keep them apart.

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330420341
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 185
Weight: 310g
Height: 230mm
Width: 150mm
Spine width: 19mm