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Here are recorded the deaths of parents, children, pets, friends, lovers and soldiers; the death of God, a building, a marriage and an idea. Registering in range from agnostic humour to elegiac dignity, the stories in Cold Comfort show the extraordinary connections made by the imagination as it confronts the inevitability of death. Contributors include AS Byatt, Slavenka Drakulic, Kirsty Gunn, Tobias Hill, Lynne Tillman and William Trevor.
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This collection of short stories on death and bereavement deals with the deaths of parents, children, pets, friends, lovers and soldiers; the death of God, a building, a marriage and an idea.
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1852423609
- ISBN 13 9781852423605
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- Number of pages256
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