Language: English
\nPublisher: PM Press<\/p>\n
Life\u2019s stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much.<\/p>\n
Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action, and climax. It\u2019s a neat and tidy way of telling a story. But life\u2019s not like that, is it? It doesn\u2019t obey the rules. Life\u2019s stories\u2014like the stories told here in\u00a0But<\/em>, personal and impersonal, historical and contemporary\u2014are punctuated by disruption, derailment, and digression.<\/p>\n Stories where the good guys lose. Stories where the bad girls win. Stories that just stop in the middle. Stories that fizzle out or simply never get going. Stories that don\u2019t make sense. Stories that start where they should end and end where they start. Stories that go round in a cyclical loop, forever. Unfinished stories. Unstarted stories. Stories that stutter and mumble, that cough and splutter.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what we have here in this book: real stories, that do all of the above. That\u2019s why this book is called\u00a0But<\/em>. Because the but is there to disrupt the easy normality of the way we tell our stories. This book is a collection of stories about real lives, real people, and real life. Stuttering, wayward, disjointed, funny, ridiculous, and unplanned.<\/p>\n Author:\u00a0Boff Whalley<\/p>\n Format:\u00a0Paperback \/ Hardcover<\/p>\n Size:\u00a06 x 9<\/p>\n Pages:\u00a0288<\/p>\n