- Title:
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Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories (MP3)
- Written by:
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Ruth Rendell
- Read by:
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Lindsay Duncan
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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8 hours 40 minutes
- MP3 size:
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358 MB
- Published:
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June 28 2017
- Available Date:
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June 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489396488
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Mystery; Short Stories & Anthologies
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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'Plenty of style and many a wry reflection on the human condition ... Rendell's mission in these well-crafted short stories is ... to exhibit a cool skill in the telling of moral fables. This is serious entertainment.'
Express UK
A collection of nine beautifully crafted, terrifying and intriguing tales of spine-tingling psychological terror and suspense from Ruth Rendell.
The title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are shelves in every room, packed with titles which Ambrose Ribbon has checked pedantically for mistakes of grammar and fact. Life for Ribbon, without his mother now, is lonely and obsessive, filled with psychoses and neuroses, with the ever-present possibility of a descent into violent madness. He still keeps his mother's dressing table exactly as she had left it, the wardrobe door always open so that her clothes can be seen inside, and her pink silk nightdress on the bed. There is one book too that he associates particularly with her – volume VIII of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Piranha to Scurfy. It marked a very significant moment in their relationship ...
In the other stories, Ruth Rendell deals with a variety of themes, some macabre, some vengeful, some mysterious, all precisely observed. They illustrate very atmospherically what range Ruth Rendell has as a writer, expanding beyond her famous sphere of crime writing.
This collection features the stories: 'Piranha to Scurfy', 'Computer Seance', 'Fair Exchange', 'The Wink', 'Catamount', 'Walter's Leg', 'The Professional', 'The Beach Butler', 'The Astronomical Scarf', 'High Mysterious Union' and 'Myth'.
'In her writing, horror does not shake its gory locks directly at us, but hovers on the periphery of our inner vision, hidden among the ordinary, the everyday.'
The Sunday Telegraph
'Rendell's mastery of the difficult short story genre is unsurpassed ... Her mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched.'
The Times