The human condition in all its forms is played out in a rickety Kenyan bus, a Victorian clinic and the backstreets of Jerusalem in this fourth issue of The Mechanics' Institute Review. Love and loss, hope and disappointment, are as resonant in suburbia and the Old Kent Road as they are beside a Texan dirt track or in an Indian brothel. Here are 23 short stories from both new and established voices, an essay on the art of self-criticism by one of the world’s leading writers, and illustrated pieces by two of today’s most exciting graphic authors.
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Project Director: Sue Tyley
Editors: Gabriela Blandy, Jill McGivering, Jennifer Payne, Elizabeth Sarkany, James Vincent
The Editorial Team would like to thank Russell Celyn Jones, Anne-Marie Taylor and Julia Bell for making this project possible.
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Preface © the Editors, 2007
Contents © the individual Authors, 2007
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