Imprint: Arcadia
Format: C Format
ISBN: 978-1-905147-73-1
Price: £ 10.99
Pages: 250 pp
Date: April 2008
‘An old-fashioned collection of murder stories served up with a cool modern blend’ – Time Out on Death Comes Easy
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A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories
Peter Burton ed.
A short story collection compiled for anyone who’s a fan of grisly, compelling fiction and vignettes that will wrest your heart out.
In this new anthology of gay-themed short stories, readers will find themselves consumed in a whirlwind of enthusiasm over these carefully-selected and arresting works about the conflicts of war. The title story follows the actions of a small troop of American soldiers on patrol in war-torn Baghdad, and is at once as sweeping and topical as a newspaper headline and as chillingly disturbing as only the presence of mindless evil can be. Including stories from such established and acclaimed authors as Neil Bartlett, Francis King, Hugh Fleetwood and Richard Zimler, as well as highlighting the work of less mainstream but no less potent writers, such as Scott Brown, Alan James, Neal Drinnan and Patrick Roscoe, A Casualty of War manages in sixteen stories to represent writers from all corners of the world, including Australia, Britain, Canada and the US, and encompasses a wide range of locales and themes. Sometimes serious, oft sinister, at times light-hearted and always absorbing, these stories contain something to satisfy readers of all tastes.
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