Reality, and Other Stories

Lanchester, John

£8.99

Selfie-sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real. John Lanchester’s first book of shorter fictions, ‘Reality, and Other Stories’ is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, 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.

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Publish Date: 07/10/2021
ISBN: 9780571363018 Category:

Description

‘Sharp, humorous, satirical . . . a mind-bending collection.’ TLS

Household gizmos with a mind of their own.

Constant cold calls from unknown numbers.

And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real.

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.

Additional information

Weight 202 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 14 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xi, 217

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K