The Degas Complex

Name: The Degas Complex
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‘Imagination links with memory’ is a quote attributed to the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and one which he passed on as advice to many apprentice artists, including Paul Gauguin. This collection of short stories - featuring 'Take a bow', 'What the butler saw', 'Josephine Shakespeare' and 'Monkey Jack' among others - is set in Darlington in north east England in the 1970's and does exactly that: links the distant memories of the young Jethro Anson Nowsty with his own contemporary adult imagination.

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Publication Date: Mar 29, 2024
Language: English
Category: Fiction
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Antony J Stowers

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short stories fiction british fiction working class childhood memoirs Stowers

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About Antony J Stowers

I was born in a modest working class home in a small post-industrial railway town in north east England called Darlington in 1963 and left school with almost no qualifications a month before Margaret Thatcher came into office as PM in 1979. As a 'writer' I've had no formal training. When I was 18 I decided this was what I was going to do: write, act and create. I dedicated myself to this re-education for the next few years and returned to mainstream education and got myself qualifications relevant to my goals (drama school, A Levels, O Levels) and crowned it with a teaching degree from Nantes University in France (where I have lived since 2006). From 1985-1988 l studied as an actor at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and lived in London and also travelled internationally for a further 8 years. From 1996-2006 I ran two professional theatre arts companies in north east England employing many actors. I now have 33 good theatre plays spread over 5 volumes and 20 books, one in French. My entire life from birth to very recent times has been recorded in books, plays and poems, in one way or another. It takes a kind of psychological courage to lead the life I lead. Nobody is forcing me to do it. I'm not obliged to live it this way. I voluntarily test my mettle in the public arena in order to achieve new understanding of myself and the world I live in. We pass this way but once - to neglect our talents while we are here is criminal.

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