Jellyfish (short story collection)

{{Short description|2015 short story collection by Scottish writer Janice Galloway}}

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| pub_date = 2015

| author = Janice Galloway

| language = English

| country = Ireland

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Jellyfish is a short story collection by Scottish author Janice Galloway, published by Freight Books in 2015.

Major themes

In the epigraph to Jellyfish, Galloway notes that she seeks to redefine David Lodge's idea that "literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way around".{{Cite web|title = Tales of Jellyfish by Janice Galloway; tales of motherhood and other|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/tales-of-jellyfish-by-janice-galloway-tales-of-motherhood-and-other-nightmares-10409937.html|website = The Independent|access-date = 2016-02-01|language = en-GB}} Throughout the 14 stories in Jellyfish, Galloway connects the themes sex, love, and parenthood, as well as both mental and physical illnesses.{{Cite news|title = Jellyfish, By Janice Galloway|url = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jellyfish-by-janice-galloway-1.2324299|newspaper = The Irish Times|access-date = 2016-02-01|language = en-US}}

Reception and awards

Jellyfish was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Literary Award in 2015 in literary fiction{{Cite web|title = Literary Awards Shortlists Announced!|url = http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/news/2015/10/22/literary-awards-shortlists-announced|website = www.saltiresociety.org.uk|access-date = 2016-02-01}} and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.{{Cite web|title = Frank O'Connor Longlist 2015 Announced|url = http://shortstoryireland.com/2015/04/29/frank-oconnor-longlist-2015-announced/|website = Short Story Ireland|access-date = 2016-02-01}}

References

Category:2015 short story collections

Category:Scottish short story collections