Shifts
Adam Thorpe
256 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0099284316
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2001
In his first collection of short stories, poet and novelist Thorpe explores the lives of his characters through the work that they do. The first-person confessionals include a Ghanaian immigrant with an identity crisis; a bin-man uncovering spooky filth; and a death caused by Verlaine’s cigar butt.