Communion Town: A City in Ten Chapters

from bcquinnsmom

The subtitle of Communion Town is "A city in ten chapters," although it's really a collection of ten short stories with different characters in each one. Common among them all is the city which "doesn't stop, however appalled;" each "chapter" different because, as the narrator in the first story ...

from lostinalibrary

Sam Thompson's debut novel, Communion Town, was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2012. It consists of ten tales, mostly unrelated, and not all equally enjoyable. The town, itself is a nightmarish place where the vast majority of its inhabitants lead sad and desperate lives in dingy apartments ...

from nomadreader

The basics: The tagline for Communion Town is "A City in Ten Chapters." Aside from setting the stories have little in common, but instead they give ten different perspectives on the city of Communion Town. My thoughts: I was immediately intrigued by the premise of this novel. I imagined the stori...

from kidzdoc

This city is Epidamnus while this story is being told: when another one is told it will become another town. - Platus Have you noticed how each of us conjures up our own city? You have your secret haunts and private landmarks and favourite short cuts and I have mine, so as we navigate the streets...

from delphica

This exceeded my expectations, that's for sure. Ten stories, vaguely linked, set in a city (and it was fun to pick up on parts that felt like real cities, I got a lot of London, New York, and Paris) with a bit of a magical realism thing going on, but not so much as to be annoying. Each story was ...