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Fragmented
Debut collection from London journalist and winner of 2009 Cinnamon Press Short Story Award.
Fragmented brings together short stories and sketches, charting a personal journey from squatter and hippy in Seventies London to creative, stable middle-age as husband, father, teacher and writer. Responding to and recording social change, often by seizing moments in the flux of city life, these stories are both self-contained fragments and a cohesive narrative of a city and an individual within it.
Many sketches are set in Hackney or Hornsey Rise, at one time the largest squat in Europe. Fragmented brings to life characters and places, examines the underside of London epitomised by outsiders, drugs, racial tension and crime, and explores deeper themes not only of childhood, family and relationships, but also of the nature of writing, political idealism, fear of oblivion and how we conjure and retain a sense of the past.
Jeremy Worman has reviewed for The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, the New Statesman, the TLS and many other publications. ‘Storm at Galesburg’ won the Cinnamon Press Short Story Competition in 2009 and ‘Terry’ won the Waterstone’s / Multi-Storey competition in 2002. His first novel, It’s All Right, Ma is forthcoming. He has degrees in English from London University and Cambridge University and teaches English Literature to American students at Birkbeck.
Fragmented brings together short stories and sketches, charting a personal journey from squatter and hippy in Seventies London to creative, stable middle-age as husband, father, teacher and writer. Responding to and recording social change, often by seizing moments in the flux of city life, these stories are both self-contained fragments and a cohesive narrative of a city and an individual within it.
Many sketches are set in Hackney or Hornsey Rise, at one time the largest squat in Europe. Fragmented brings to life characters and places, examines the underside of London epitomised by outsiders, drugs, racial tension and crime, and explores deeper themes not only of childhood, family and relationships, but also of the nature of writing, political idealism, fear of oblivion and how we conjure and retain a sense of the past.
Jeremy Worman has reviewed for The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, the New Statesman, the TLS and many other publications. ‘Storm at Galesburg’ won the Cinnamon Press Short Story Competition in 2009 and ‘Terry’ won the Waterstone’s / Multi-Storey competition in 2002. His first novel, It’s All Right, Ma is forthcoming. He has degrees in English from London University and Cambridge University and teaches English Literature to American students at Birkbeck.
144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2011
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Jeremy Worman
4 books5 followers Jeremy has lived as a hippy in Wales and squatted in London. He also participated in performance-art events with sculptor Paul David Wright. At Birkbeck, University of London, he gained a First Class degree in English and was twice awarded the biennial ‘John Hay Lobban Prize for the Most Promising Student of English Literature’. He has an MA in Creative and Life Writing (Distinction) from Goldsmith, an M.Litt from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths. His supervisor was Blake Morrison; his examiners were Francis Spufford and Sir Jonathan Bate.
He has reviewed for The Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, the Spectator and many other publications. He won the Waterstones / BBC Radio Manchester short story prize (2002) and the story was broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester; he won the 2009 Cinnamon Press Short Story Competition. His second collection, Swimming with Diana Dors and Other Stories was published by Cinnamon in June 2014. Jeremy taught English Literature to American BA students at Birkbeck for over twenty-five years.
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He has reviewed for The Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, the Spectator and many other publications. He won the Waterstones / BBC Radio Manchester short story prize (2002) and the story was broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester; he won the 2009 Cinnamon Press Short Story Competition. His second collection, Swimming with Diana Dors and Other Stories was published by Cinnamon in June 2014. Jeremy taught English Literature to American BA students at Birkbeck for over twenty-five years.
www.jeremyworman.com
http://www.facebook.com/jeremy.worman...
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