City Burning
City Burning The characters in Angela Graham's stories, set in Wales, Northern Ireland and Italy, find themselves faced with a choice following something they have witnessed or done. Some of these…
Specifikacia City Burning
City Burning
The characters in Angela Graham's stories, set in Wales, Northern Ireland and Italy, find themselves faced with a choice following something they have witnessed or done. Some of these moments occur in mundane circumstances, others amidst tragedy or drama - urban violence, the Covid-19 pandemic, the tipping-point of a marriage. They have come to a moment of change, which puts to the proof their beliefs or their idea of themselves.
They include a watchful child, a gay priest, an estranged husband, an actress adrift and a young woman catching the tail-end of heartless urban mayhem. The characters find themselves confirmed or radicalised, and challenge or resist on one or other side of a political division or on the personal front of domestic tyranny. A City Burning examines power of all types, exploring conflicts between political allegiances; between autonomy and intimacy;