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The World-Swimmers (Patrick West)

  For days now you have been driving across unbroken grassland, which you know you’ll never be able to leave behind forever, no matter how fast you might go, or …

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FROM DEEPEST DEATH TO FULLEST LIFE: an interview with Patrick West

LAURIE STEED You are noted as saying it’s essential a short story ‘spend time in the foreign territories of the writer before it is midwifed onto the page’. How would …

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The Breathtaking and the Bewildering: Patrick West's The World Swimmers

Review by Robert Goodman Short stories are their own particular art form. Like poetry, they are often the expression of an idea or a mood or a character. A distillation …

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