Attrib. and Other Stories

This debut collection from Eley Williams centres upon the difficulties of communication and the way in which one's thoughts – absurd, encompassing, oblique – may never be fully communicable and yet can overwhelm.Attrib. and other stories celebrates the tricksiness of language just as it confronts its limits. Correspondingly, the stories are littered with the physical ephemera of language: dictionaries, dog-eared pages, bookmarks and old coffee stains on older books. This is writing that centres on the weird, tender intricacies of the everyday where characters vie to 'own' their words, tell tall tales and... Sonra