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Trick Is to Keep Breathing

Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful and deeply serious, this is a novel of great warmth and energy: it's the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joy's salvation. First published by Polygon in 1989 and Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 15th, 2015
  • Pages: 240
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Available Again - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.49in - 5.57in - 0.71in - 0.71lb
  • EAN: 9781564780812
  • Categories: General

About the Author

Galloway, Janice: - Authors of the stories come from all over Scotland and represent a wide mix of gender, age and cultures. Celebrity contributors include Alexander McCall Smith, writer of the Number One Ladies Detective Agency series; award winning film and stage actor Brain Cox, Michael Rosen, who was Children's Poet Laureate from 2007 to 2009, and writer Janice Galloway, whose latest book was This is Not About Me.

Praise for this book

"Meticulously observed, agonizing and funny... [an] unconventional account of clinical depression... --Publishers Weekly

"Galloway provides sentences blazing with light, a gorgeous draft of terror." --Observer