Can we talk and other stories (Record no. 227576)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0435912054
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 823.91
Item number CHIC
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shimmer Chinodya
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9 (RLIN) 124347
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Can we talk and other stories
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. USA
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Heinemann Educational Publishers
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 154p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 20x13cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Source of price type code English
Price amount 195.00
Currency code ₹
Unit of pricing 195.00
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title American Writers Series
9 (RLIN) 124348
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Shimmer Chinodya, winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region) is one of Zimbabwe's foremost fiction writers. This collection of short stories reveals his development as a writer of passionate questioning integrity.<br/>The first stories, 'Hoffman Street' and 'The Man who Hanged Himself' capture the bewildered innocence of a child's view of the adult world, where behaviour is often puzzling and contradictory; stories such as 'Going to See Mr B.V.' provide the transition between the world of the adult and that of the child where the latter is required to act for himself in a situation where illusions founder on a narrow reality. 'Among the Dead' and 'Brothers and Sisters' look wryly at the self-conscious, self-centred, desperately serious world of young adulthood while 'Playing your Cards', 'The Waterfall', 'Strays' and 'Bramson' introduce characters for whom ambition, disillusion, and disappointment jostle for attention in a world where differences of class, culture, race and morality come to the fore. Finally, in 'Can we Talk' we conclude with an abrasive, lucid, sinewy voice which explores the nature of estrangement. The charge is desolation. Can we Talk and Other Stories speaks of the unspoken and unsaid. The child who watches but does not understand, the young man who observes but cannot participate, the man who stands outside not sure where his desires and ambitions lead, the older man, estranged by his own choices. 'Can we Talk' is not a question but a statement that insists on being heard, and demands a reassessment of our dreams.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element English Fiction
9 (RLIN) 124288
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element English Literature
9 (RLIN) 124289
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name CHINODYA (Shimmer)
9 (RLIN) 124290
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     English St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 06/17/2023   823.91 CHIC D05919 06/19/2023 06/19/2023 Donated Books