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The Dressing-Up Box

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The Dressing-Up Box Synopsis

The characters in David Constantine’s fifth collection are all in pursuit of sanctuary; the violence and mendacity of the outside world presses in from all sides – be it the ritualised brutality suffered by children at a Catholic orphanage, or the harrowing videos shared among refugees of an atrocity ‘back home’. In each case, the characters withdraw into themselves, sometimes abandoning language altogether, until something breaks and they can retreat no further. In Constantine’s luminous prose, these stories capture such moments in all their clarity; moments when an entire life seems to hang in the balance, the past’s betrayals exposed, its ghosts dragged out into the daylight; moments in which the possibility of defiance and redemption is everything.

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ISBN: 9781912697304
Publication date: 25th June 2020
Author: David Constantine
Publisher: Comma Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 256 pages
Genres: Shorter Reads
Modern and Contemporary Fiction