Bøger af David Gaffney

O estilo Chen de Taijiquan é o método original a partir do qual os outros quatro principais estilos de Taijiquan (Yang, Wu, Wu e Sun) evoluíram. Subscrito por Chen Xiaowang, Guardião da linhagem na 19a geração do Taijiquan da Família Chen, a Essência do Taijiquan é uma ferramenta essencial para todos aqueles que buscam compreender a verdadeira face da mais enigmática de todas as artes marciais. Este livro explica a recente e turbulenta história de Chenjiagou, lugar de origem do Taijiquan, e de como essa história moldou a arte que praticamos hoje. Introduz uma exposição exaustiva dos passos progressivos que constituem o currículo do Estilo Chen de Taijiquan. Tópicos incluem: Compreender o Qi de uma forma prática; O Taijiquan como sistema de combate; Decifrar o cânon do boxe de Chen Wangting, o criador do Taijiquan; A atitude correcta necessária a uma prática de sucesso etc.... Ao longo do livro está presente o tema subjacente da desmistificação da arte, para que esta possa ser apreciada no contexto cultural do trabalho realizado pelas gerações sucessivas de praticantes de Taijiquan. Numa série de artigos, o capítulo final expõe o entendimento das inúmeras facetas da arte do Taijiquan por alguns de seus maiores líderes actuais. David Gaffney e Davidine Siaw-Voon Sim são os autores do best-seller "Estilo Chen de Taijiquan: A fonte do Boxe de Taiji. Depois de terem efectuado várias viagens a Chenjiagou para treinar de forma tradicional, foram lhes concedidos certificados de instrutores pela Escola de Artes Marciais de Taijiquan de Chenjiagou. Na sua incessantebusca, continuam a pesquisar, preservar e promover a verdadeira face desta disciplina antiga. "Promovendo O Taijiquan tradicional da família Chen". A Essência do Taijiquan foi publicado por Chenjiagou Taijiquan GB www.chentaijigb.co.uk

Haunting and funny stories that explore the theme of town versus country with a dark humour and a surreal spin.

In stories that are laugh-out-loud funny, cringingly weird and desperately sad, Gaffney introduces the possibility of momentary actions that change everything; a swimming man sees a hundred glass eyes at the bottom of a river; and a comedian decides to express himself through the medium of smell.

Succinct in length and vast in imagination, Gaffney's micro stories are bizarre and witty slices of condensed reality. Frequently hilarious and often poignant, they leave an after taste that is resonant, dark and clingy. They sometimes seem to glow from the inside with their own awful secrets.

British comedy blended with universal regret, this darkly funny graphic novel, using surreal yet beautiful visions, explores the ways we remain haunted by our ex-lovers.Valerie has a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead and that their bodies are kept downstairs in the cellar in a strange, mummified state. Every day she brings them upstairs and speaks with them about what went wrong.What follows is a series of peculiar and funny, and sometimes disturbing short tales about inept lovers, weird obsessions, and socially malfunctioning men who repeatedly fail to build a relationship with poor Valerie.Apart from Stanley. Stanley was special.Could he be the one to save her?The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head is a dark comedy about relationships, memory, loneliness and obsession and is the first collaboration between ultra-short fiction writer David Gaffney and comic artist Dan Berry."Funny, poignant, surreal and still warmly emotional and human, a delight to read." - Forbidden Planet International Blog"It's a wonderfully offbeat, dark comedic delight." - Comicon.com

Aromabingo is the much aniticipated sequel to Gaffney's highly-acclaimed `Sawn-off Tales', offering yet more weird, edgy, ultra-short stories, together with several longer ones - the perfect opportunity to spend more time inside the baffling, hilarious and sometimes moving world David Gaffney paints for us.

David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic, absurd and disturbingly true.