Creamy Polished Globes
Blake Morrison: A.E. Coppard’s Stories, 7 July 2022
The Hurly Burly and Other Stories
by A.E. Coppard, edited by Russell Banks.
Ecco, 320 pp., £16.99, March 2021,978 0 06 305416 5 Show More
by A.E. Coppard, edited by Russell Banks.
Ecco, 320 pp., £16.99, March 2021,
“... away.If there are other writers who competed as professional runners, I’m not aware of them. (Samuel Beckett was a good sprinter but that was in his schooldays.) To Coppard, the importance of running was that it taught him he was best over a short distance, a lesson he applied to his fiction. Though he published many collections of stories, he never ... ”