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from Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues
Ronald Sukenick
‘when rising expectations hit the upcoming decline hell was going to break loose it was already starting to break loose’
A Battle
Patrick Süskind
‘Early one August evening, when most people had already left the park, two men sat confronting one another across a chessboard.’
A Conversation Piece
George Steiner
‘No. Listen to me. God's confidence in Abraham was not total. Let me hammer out my meaning.’
A Discourse on the Elephant
Richard Rayner
‘This is not the story of my life, at least not the story of all of it, but it is the story of my father.’
A Few Words on the Life Cycle of Frogs
Patricio Pron
‘I wasn’t going to abandon the dream of literature, I was going to keep dreaming.’
A Man’s Life
Pajtim Statovci
‘I wished my family would die, my friends too, everybody I knew, because only that way could they never follow me wherever I went.’
A Scream of Toys
Alan Sillitoe
‘Edie looked a long time at blue sky in a pool of water after rain before dipping her finger down for a taste.’
A Short History of Coronation Ale
Graham Swift
‘Rest assured, it was no ordinary ale that they drank by the Ouse while in Westminster crowds thronged.’
A Soap Opera From Hell
Clive Sinclair
‘It comes as no surprise when an ophthalmist informs him that the tears he does produce–the consequence of various allergies–are deficient, poor-quality facsimiles of the real thing.’