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High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories

High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories

Karen Stevens & Jonathan Taylor (eds.)

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Winner, "Best Anthology", Saboteur Awards 2019.

Drinking stories are told by drunks, or about drunks; they are told in pubs, or set in pubs. They are stories where people drink, and stories which somehow induce a sense of drunkenness in readers and listeners. Anton Chekhov may or may not have drunkenly compared the experience of reading a short story to downing a shot of vodka, and F. Scott Fitzgerald claimed that a good short story could “be written on a bottle.” Here is a collection of contemporary short stories written on and about bottles – stories about the comedies, tragedies, pleasures, pains and horrors of alcohol – all of which can be downed like (and perhaps with) a glass of vodka.

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Imprint: Valley Press

Published: November 2018

ISBN: 9781912436125

Catalogue no: VP0132

Page count: 197

Trim size: 203 x 127 mm

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Praise for High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories:

‘An intoxicating cocktail of stories. Drink deep, but be warned: there is darkness in the cup.’
— Will Buckingham

‘A marvellous collection that springs from life as it’s lived – on the pulse, in the street, and in our dreams. Its stories are, by turns, poignant, tough, funny, lyrical. Above all, they capture the emboldening and destructive force of alcohol as its characters search, stumble, love, stagger and rise above.’
— Alison MacLeod

About the author

Edited with an introduction by Karen Stevens and Jonathan Taylor, contributors include some of the UK’s best short story writers: Judith AllnattJenn AshworthDesmond BarryLaurie CusackLouis de BernièresJane FeaverCathy GalvinAlison MooreKate NorthBethan RobertsJane RobertsHannah StevensMichael StewartDavid SwannMelanie Whipman and Sue Wilsea.