41 Places: 41 Stories
True tales from Brighton
William Shaw
41 places: 41 stories is a book of found narratives, true stories picked up on street corners, taxi ranks, pubs, car parks - even in public toilets. each tale inhabits its own geography: a specific place in the centre of a british seaside town.
If the essence of narrative is change, William Shaw distils it here in these tales of love, loss and self-discovery. Brighton is, after all, a place where people have always come to transform themselves.
Shaw's skill is that he does have an agenda, an angle (a point if you like)...It's the details that count, and he makes them count. (Jarvis Cocker)
This page was added on 21/05/2007.