Description
'One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times' David Peace In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers and wandering pilgrims, gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers and ex-cons with secret passions, the men that populate these unsettling, wild and wistful stories form a multi-faceted, era-spanning portrait of just what it means to be a man.
From the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing, comes a wild, unsettling and mordantly funny collection that excavates and eviscerates the male psyche
About the Author
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His most recent novel, The Offing, was a bestseller. Other works include The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, Beastings which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature, and Pig Iron which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels and his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, Caught By The River and many more. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. benmyers.com / @BenMyers1
Reviews
Moving fast and deadly, the stories in Male Tears carry us from bleak farms to lonely reservoirs and snowbound woods. Benjamin Myers writes sentences with a charging pulse and the account they give of masculinity is a bloody one, stripped of romance and larded with wit -- Chris Power
Benjamin Myers' stories in Male Tears cut right to the heart of the matter. This is fiction to be taken in gulps of pleasure - full of fire and light, wisdom and violence -- Rob Doyle
One of the most interesting, restless writers of his generation * Daily Mail *
A powerful new voice * The Times *
Myers is the master of rural English noir -- Paul Kingsnorth
One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times -- David Peace
Powerful, visceral writing -- Pat Barker
Book Information
ISBN 9781526611369
Author Benjamin Myers
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 204g
From the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing, comes a wild, unsettling and mordantly funny collection that excavates and eviscerates the male psyche
About the Author
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His most recent novel, The Offing, was a bestseller. Other works include The Gallows Pole, which won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, Beastings which was awarded the Portico Prize for Literature, and Pig Iron which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published non-fiction, poetry and crime novels and his journalism has appeared in publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, Caught By The River and many more. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. benmyers.com / @BenMyers1
Reviews
Moving fast and deadly, the stories in Male Tears carry us from bleak farms to lonely reservoirs and snowbound woods. Benjamin Myers writes sentences with a charging pulse and the account they give of masculinity is a bloody one, stripped of romance and larded with wit -- Chris Power
Benjamin Myers' stories in Male Tears cut right to the heart of the matter. This is fiction to be taken in gulps of pleasure - full of fire and light, wisdom and violence -- Rob Doyle
One of the most interesting, restless writers of his generation * Daily Mail *
A powerful new voice * The Times *
Myers is the master of rural English noir -- Paul Kingsnorth
One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times -- David Peace
Powerful, visceral writing -- Pat Barker
Book Information
ISBN 9781526611369
Author Benjamin Myers
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 204g
