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The stone thrower
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- Book Synopsis
- Intelligent clothing, superhero dictators, contagion-carrying computer games, cross-species reproduction… Welcome to the strange and startling world of Adam Marek; a menagerie of futuristic technology, sinister traditions and scientifically-grounded superpowers - a place where the absurd and the mundane are not merely bedfellows, but interbreed. Pulsing at the core of Adam Marek's much-anticipated second collection is a single, unifying theme: a parent's instinct to protect a particularly vulnerable child. Whether set amid unnerving visions of the near-future, or grounded in the domestic here-and-now, these stories demonstrate that, sometimes, only outright surrealism can do justice to the merciless strangeness of reality, only the fantastically illogical can steel us against what 'ordinary' life threatens.
- About The Author
- Adam Marek is an award-winning short story writer. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. His first story collection Instruction Manual for Swallowing was nominated for the Frank O'Connor Prize. His stories have appeared in many magazines, including: Prospect and The Sunday Times Magazine, and in many anthologies including Lemistry, Litmus and The New Uncanny from Comma Press, The New Hero from Stoneskin Press, and The Best British Short Stories 2011. His second story collection, The Stone Thrower, was published in summer 2012. Stories taken from both collections were recently featured on BBC Radio 4 Extra. To subscribe to Adam's blog, Twitter and Facebook updates, visit www.adammarek.co.uk
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781905583508
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Comma Press, (02 August 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 170
- Weight
- 207 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 10 mm
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