Modern Times

Modern Times
Cathy Sweeney
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Hardback
h220 x 138mm - 160pg
23 Jul 2020 UK
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9781474618489
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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 blueStartling, wry, beguiling and emotionally charged - the stories in Modern Times might be reminiscent of Lydia Davis, Angela Carter and Daisy Johnson, but they are also unlike anything you' ve read before.
Cathy Sweeney' s stories have already attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and this first collection is as marvellous as we could have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut. Cathy Sweeney' s work is jaw-droppingly good: inventive, funny, lush. One of the best short story writers working today. Modern Times, Cathy Sweeney' s inventive debut collection, offers snapshots of an unsettling, dislocated world. Surprising and uncanny, funny and transgressive, these stories only look like distortions of reality. - Irish TimesI loved this collection. It vibrates with a glorious strangeness! Magnificently weird, hugely entertaining, deeply profound. In Modern Times, Cathy Sweeney gives us fables of the present that are funny, vertiginous and melancholy. With a crispness and clarity and weirdness unlike any other fiction being published now . . . Sometimes chilling, eerily accessible - and as wickedly droll as they are horrifying . . . The voice running through is lucid and bright and highly readable, each sentence stripped clean and polished . . . The stories themselves, long-sweeping, succinctly told anatomies of spectral lives lived in sad rented places or loveless middle-class homes, are absolutely for this moment. - Irish IndependentSweeney' s stories are wacky, bold, form-bending . . . Reading Modern Times is a bit like being in a strange dream . . . Powerful . . . Daring - Irish Times
Cathy Sweeney lives in Dublin. She studied at Trinity College and taught English at secondary level for many years before turning to writing. Her work has been published in various magazines and journals.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781474618489
Published: 23 Jul 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 220mm
Width: 138mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 160

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