Reality, and Other Stories from John Lanchester

Category: Bücher
Pages / Format: 240 S
Edit year: 2021
Publishing House: Faber&Faber, LondonFaber&Faber
Language: Englisch
ISBN: 9780571363018
Edition / Volum: Main

Sharp, humorous, satirical . . . a mind-bending collection. Times Literary SupplementVery modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.'Sharp, humorous, satirical . . . a mind-bending collection.'TLS<br><br>Household gizmos with a mind of their own.<br><br>Constant cold calls from unknown numbers.<br><br>And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real.<br><br>Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.GBLanchester, JohnJohn Lanchester has written five novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour, Capital and The Wall, and three works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis; and How to Speak Money, a primer in popular economics. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.

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