Ten Sorry Tales

by Mick Jackson

Book Overview

From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys, come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement, loneliness, and childhood boredom. By turns funny, scary and heartbreaking, they are always illuminating, and further evidence of one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571225497
• ISBN13: 9780571225491
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

For the quirky

A fairly quick read, Jackson's sorry tales range from the oddball to the uplifting. Well worth a look especially if you like your stories a bit more original erring towards the strange end of the curve.