The Last Dance and Other Stories

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This was ludicrously bad. I've not read anything quite so terrible in a long while. It's not just that the characters were one-dimensional and the writing painfully bad ("The buildings were warmly characterful") but that the stories were, to put it simply, pointless. Writing short stories is an art. You have to set the scene, describe the characters, and tell a tale -- all within a limited word count. Some authors rise to this challenge. Victoria Hislop didn't. urn:lcp:lastdanceotherst0000hisl_c4u3:epub:aca9fddd-3d30-477f-8a24-ab1b7e83c156 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lastdanceotherst0000hisl_c4u3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t48q5rf9s Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781471349485 When Katia Kakanidis saw the pair of them for the first time, that was how they were. Hand in hand. Stunning... Intricate, beautifully observed and with a painter's eye for imagery, in these stories Hislop evokes Greece, its people, its customs and traditions with a sensitivity that reveals her deep knowledge of not just the place but also the human condition' ( Express) In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes their distinct atmosphere, she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters, from a lonesome priest to battling brothers, and from an unwanted stranger to a groom troubled by music and memory.

Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8214 Ocr_module_version 0.0.7 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400031 Openlibrary_edition But again, this is fine. This is what being relentlessly great at sport sometimes looks like. It may sit poorly with the urge to lionise and fan-worship, but plenty of elite sportspeople have something wild about them: the sharp, obsessive edge that drives you to become this astonishingly good at something so reductively simple.Then there’s mild, steely Steve Kerr, who looks like a small-town orthodontist but appears also to be one of the nicest hypercompetitive athletes to have walked the earth. And obviously there’s Dennis Rodman just for the sheer luminous glory, the perfect blend of hard-headed elite dedication and going to the wrestling and pretending to hit someone with a chair. A collection of stunning short stories from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. A collection of stunning short stories from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop’s ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. Once upon a time two people were going to get married but they broke it off because their families disapproved. Ten years later they meet again, having just married other people, and realise they've made a mistake but it's too late. They dance. The end." ( The Last Dance)

In fact I wanted to be friends with all of them. All except Michael. I wanted Michael to distrust me, to hate me; but finally, and through gritted teeth, to admit that he grudgingly respects me. Hardcover στην οποία βρισκόταν αυτό το βιβλίο όταν το πήρα. Ήταν σαν να διαβάζω ένα μικρο βιβλιαράκι, ένα τετράδιο με ιστορίες. Ή ακόμα καλύτερα ένα ημερολόγιο.A master at evoking a sense of place... At turns romantic and melancholic, these stories offer memorable portraits ofo rdinary Greek life" - Mail on Sunday A female student discovers that her boyfriend is an arsonist when he disappears and she discovers the charred remains of his lodgings. The flame in her heart is extinguished. The end." ( Aflame In Athens) This delightful book of short Greek stories from Victoria Hislop, sweetens the memory greatly. A decade ago, while in Melbourne, Australia, I was often treated to a lot of old Greek films, being televised at nights, from a Geelong (seaside area) channel. Hence, I straightaway drew an easy familiarity with the closely-entwined Greek communities that sought their solace from various everyday entanglements still caught in a series of faithful and rigid traditions, as carefully painted by Hislop.