This is storytelling at its best and just like a tapestry, when each thread is sewn into place, so emerge the layers and history of relationships past and present' * Sunday Express * And secondly, is this actually a documentary film at all, given Jordan’s editorial control, or just a hugely enjoyable advert for shoes? 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. 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. 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.

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.

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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.

These bittersweet tales of love and loyalty, of separation and reconciliation, captured in Victoria Hislop’s unique voice, will stay with you long after you reach the end. 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) 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.It is easy to get carried away by this richness. As it progressed I found myself consumed with affection for assorted New Favourite Guys among the relentlessly charismatic array of former players. First up there’s Scottie Pippen, the heart of the film, who has something irresistibly stern and upright about him; and who is said to be disappointed, no doubt in that weary frontier-preacher kind of way, by his own portrayal. 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 This slim volume..." says an endorsement on the classic historical work '1066 And All That'. Which is about what I feel about this collection of short stories. Definitely slender. Interesting titbits of Greek life, some characteristics and characters that go beyond the Mediterranean stereotypes of those as ignorant as me, but not a lot else. Apart from the stories "The Priest and the Parrot" and "The Lesson", there really isn't sufficient justification for the printing of this book. Which is a shame, as the author clearly loves her subject and manages to communicate some of that to the increasingly weary reader. Perhaps her acclaimed novels about Greek and Mediterranean life will be worth a glance. Victoria Hislop is a master at evoking a sense of place, and this collection of short stories inspired by Greece is no exception... At turns romantic and melancholic, these stories offer memorable portraits of ordinary Greek life' ( Mail on Sunday)

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When Katia Kakanidis saw the pair of them for the first time, that was how they were. Hand in hand. Two main questions have cropped up. The first is the issue raised this week by former teammate Horace Grant, and indeed, sotto voce, by the film itself. Is Michael Jordan actually a hypercompetitive sociopath? Is the greatest athlete in modern American sport some kind of superstar bully? 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 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)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. There are moments where some merely-very-good pro basketball player talks about a defining moment in his life, the one game where he made some small mark on greatness. Mike is shown watching on a tablet, hooting and laughing. Towards the end someone poisons him with a doctored pizza and you think, yeah, well, OK. 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) These bittersweet tales of love and loyalty, of separation and reconciliation, captured in Victoria Hislop's unique voice, will stay with you long after you reach the end.