Peter Cowlam

Early Novels and Short Fiction Peter Cowlam

Early Novels and Short Fiction is the first of three volumes covering Peter Cowlam's adventures into fiction, dating from the mid-1970s to the early years of the twenty-first century. Early Novels and Short Fiction covers the period from 1974 to 1998 (approximately), and opens with Penumbra, a collection of short stories, followed by the novels and novellas The Border and Back, Bim Shay (a re-imagining of the detective yarn), Electric Letters Z (a satire on literary celebrity, first published in 1998, and the winner under the title Who's Afraid of the Booker Prize? of the 2015 Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction), and Caliban's Machine, the memoir of George du Plé, a young English poet in American exile.
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