Modern Times

£9.99

The stories in this collection range from the absurd: a world beset by a sickness that slowly turns everyone blue; a woman who rears a child that gets older, but never ages; a wife making friends with her husband’s sex-doll – to the sublime: a man reconnecting with his estranged daughter through homemade movies filmed on a non-existent camera, a woman saving a child from a train wreck.

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‘Jaw-droppingly good’ Sinead Gleeson
‘Funny, poetic, heart-chilling’ Graham Norton
‘Terrific’ Jenny Offill
‘Marvellous’ Kevin Barry
‘Takes your breath away’ Observer
‘Unlike any other fiction’ Independent

There once was …

a woman who loved her husband’s cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox.

a man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter.

a couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to be reminded of what love is.

a world where you wake up one day and notice that, one by one, people are turning blue.

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Weight 0.144 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 1.4 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

160

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K