The BBC National Short Story Award 2017

by Will Eaves, Helen Oyeyemi, Benjamin Markovits, et al.

There is in the short story, at its most characteristic, something we do not often find in the novel, Frank O'Connor wrote, "an intense awareness of human loneliness." The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust 2017 all feature characters that are disconnected, willingly or unwillingly, from those around them: a mysterious out-of-towner is shunned by her new colleagues; a grieving husband retreats into his old compulsion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910974358
• ISBN13: 9781910974353
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Comma Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.5"