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    Tales of Persuasion
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    Tales of Persuasion

    Written by Philip Hensher

    Narrated by Peter Joyce

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    About this audiobook

    Ten daring stories from ‘a writer who seems capable of anything’ (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher

    Backdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency – from turmoil in Sudan following the death of a politician in a plane crash, to southern India where a Soho hedonist starts to envisage the crump and soar of munitions. Each story, regardless of location, reveals a great writer at the peak of his powers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9780007566754
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    Tales of Persuasion
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    Philip Hensher

    Philip Hensher has written eleven novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of the Badgers, Scenes from Early Life, which won the Ondaatje Prize in 2012, The Friendly Ones and A Small Revolution in Germany. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bath Spa and lives in south London and Geneva.

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      I'm really not sure what to make of this. The stories were a mixed bag, non particularly good or bad. It just didn't feel like many of them went anywhere. Some of them were observational, some in the first or third person. It felt like some of them were almost cruel or prurient, prying somehow. It was an uncomfortable sensation at times. I never really thought about not finishing it, but can't say I'll be rushing to read anything else by him.