Out There

Stories

Out There
Kate Folk
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Hardback
h222 x 138mm - 256pg
5 Apr 2022 UK
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9781529372632
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PRAISE FOR KATE FOLK: ' The literary love child of Kafka and Camus and Bradbury penning episodes of Black Mirror' Chang-Rae Lee ' Disturbing, alluring, dazzling and creepy, Out There is a riveting collection that keeps you enthralled with every page' Claire North ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A fleet of fake men called ' blots' is unleashed onto the dating apps of San Francisco, intent upon conning vulnerable women out of their data, in the exquisite title story Out There. Companion story Big Sur focuses on the reality of the blots' personal experiences. A sculptor, trapped in a skyscraper restaurant when a violent coup erupts below, creates a perfect model of the town as it is destroyed, in A Scale Model of Gull Point A ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the scene of a perilous love triangle, in The Bone Ward A house possesses gigantic human organs that consume the overworked graduate students renting its rooms, in The House' s Beating Heart A curtain of void obliterates the world at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide whom she wants to spend eternity with, in The Void Wife And many more that form Kate Folk' s debut collection Out There deftly combines elements of science fiction, horror, and psychological realism to create implicitly political and feminist stories. A darkly comic exploration of our lives in the digital age, the collection depicts a landscape that is eminently of-the-moment, and Folk magnifies the ephemera of living with a healthy slice of absurdity. The thematic pair - Out There and Big Sur - that bookend the collection have since been optioned as a TV series by Hulu, with Kate serving as executive producer and co-writer with Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ' Kate Folk' s stories inhabit otherworldly realms where exquisite language and beguiling characters excavate the very nature of love and existence' Adam Johnson ' A literary swordsmith of feline dexterity, very dark and very funny' Lisa Locascio ' The stories in this stunning debut are funny, fearless, and moving. . . Folk' s imagination is uncanny and arresting' Alex McElroy
One could fancy Kate Folk as the literary love child of Kafka and Camus and Bradbury, if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror, but that still wouldn' t capture the blazing originality and exhilarating weirdness of her writing. Wondrously perverse, often creepy and hilarious, and always sneakily heart-breaking, from the moment you read these tales you' ll know you' re in the presence of a singularly brilliant vision, one that burns off the scrim of our normal-seeming human customs and operations to reveal the utter bizarreness of this existence. Out There, it turns out, lies very much within. Disturbing, alluring, dazzling and creepy, Out There is a riveting collection that keeps you enthralled with every page. Kate Folk' s stories inhabit otherworldly realms where exquisite language and beguiling characters excavate the very nature of love and existence. Kate Folk' s stories inhabit otherworldly realms where exquisite language and beguiling characters excavate the very nature of love and existence.
Kate Folk lives in San Francisco, Her short stories and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The New Yorker, One Story, McSweeney' s, ZYZZYVA, New York Times Magazine, Granta, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Conjunctions, and Tin House, among others. Her first, unpublished, novel HOUNDSTOOTH is under TV option with AMC. As of last year, her team has officially closed on a TV series deal with Hulu, with Kate as an Executive Producer and co-writing with Sharon Horgan (of "Catastrophe").
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529372632
Published: 5 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Studio
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 138mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 256

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