Book description
In 'Auto-da-fé', a man's car defines him. Until the Rep of the Year,
in his smart blue BMW, goes head-to- head in a showdown with V-man in
his smug black Volvo saloon. But who is the real loser in this game?
In 'Free Spirit', a wanderer, a party animal, goes wherever the wind
blows, going home to bed with one person after another, old or young,
healthy or corrupt, male or female. And then moves on, without
regrets, without ever looking back...
In 'Fule's Gold', Mr Fisher has taught at St Swithin's for over
forty years, but is resigned to the total lack of imagination of the
boys in his creative writing class. Until the day he opens one
exercise book and discovers the Holy Grail of literature: an essay of
total freshness and originality. But is it just too good to have been
written by a mere schoolboy?
Part of the Storycuts series, these three stories were previously
published in the collection Jigs & Reels.
Joanne Harris is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted
Chocolat
(made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny
Depp) and seven other bestselling novels. Her hobbies are listed in
Who's Who
as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet
subversion'. She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was
16, is currently studying Old Norse, and lives with her husband and
daughter in Yorkshire, about 15 miles from the place she was born.
