Paradise Block

Paradise Block
Alice Ash
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Paperback
h196 x 128mm - 240pg
3 Feb 2022 UK
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9781788165556
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In Paradise Block, mould grows as thick as fur along the walls, alarms ring out at unexpected hours and none of the neighbours are quite what they seem. A little girl boils endless eggs in her family' s burnt-out flat, an isolated old woman entices a new friend with gifts of cutlery and cufflinks, and a young bride grows frustrated with her unappreciative husband, the caretaker of creaking, dilapidated Paradise Block. With a haunting sense of place and a keen eye for the absurd, these thirteen surreal stories lure us into a topsy-turvy world where fleatraps are more important than babies and sales calls for luxury coffins provide a welcome distraction. Lonely residents live in close proximity while longing for connection.
In these brilliant stories Alice Ash taps into a deep and compelling strangeness with vigour and humour and heart. This is a disturbing and moving collection, an unusual combination I' d like to encounter more often. "I cannot look away", one of her narrators remarks; that' s how I felt, too. -- Chris Power, author * Mothers * Alice Ash' s writing gets right at the rot underneath the polish of things, picking out the gothic in the full light of day. . . . These are dangerous stories of the best kind: treading the line between terror and delight. I couldn' t peel my eyes off them. -- Livia Franchini, author * Shelf Life * A powerful testimony to the reality of life on the margins. Raw, bizarre, disturbing, funny and uncanny. -- Cathy Sweeney, author * Modern Times * The best weird fiction holds up a fairground mirror to what we blithely call normal, reflecting a reality that warps and flickers. In Paradise Block, Alice Ash creates a world that is disturbingly Not. Restless and unsettling, these stories take a step sideways and away from the expected. Uneasy and deliciously wrong. -- Rosie Garland, author * The Palace of Curiosities * Engaging, funny and surprising in equal measure, these stories are the work of a wonderfully unconventional imagination -- Laura Kaye, author * English Animals *
Alice Ash is a writer and maker. of short films. Her story ' Eggs' was longlisted for the Galley Beggar Prize 2019, and her writing has been featured in Hotel, 3:AM Magazine, the TLS and Extra Teeth, among others. She is based in Brighton. @alice__ash
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781788165556
Published: 3 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 240

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