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The acclaimed Barcelona Plates revealed Alexei Sayle as a writer with an outstanding ability to describe contemporary life in an unusual way. Now, in his new collection The Dog Catcher, he brilliantly captures the morals and absurdities of our socalled 'cool' culture, populated by characters as recognizable as they are memorable. The Dog Catcher will confirm Alexei Sayle's reputation as not only one of the great exponents of the short story genre, but also as a profound commentator on the way we live now.
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"'An excellent collection of dark, funny and bizarre short stories... brutally, cynically and honestly written... all in all a lot better than anything David Baddeil could ever manage.' Loaded on Barcelona Plates; '14 bleak funny pitiless tales... This is life looked at through the wrong end of a telescope, the vision of Nathaniel West in Miss Lonelyhearts, and to my mind just as good... Inside every fat git there's a poet trying to get out. Well, he's out.' Observer on Barcelona Plates; 'Sayle is a funny man, and these tales of pensioners-turned-hitmen, mysterious white Fiat Unos, and inveterate hypochondriacs defy you not to smile at the incremental absurdity of ordinary life.' The Sunday Times on Barcelona Plates; 'A cracking read.. dense with smart ideas, sour observations and loony rant's Independent on Sunday on Barcelona Plates; "Barcelona Plates will put a smile on your face and a chill down your spine" Time Out on Barcelona Plates; Alexei Sayle's manner on the page is the same as it is on screen and stage: arch, dessicated and menacing... 'The Last Woman Killed in the War' is a thrilling and sensitive meditation on history, race and identity; confirming Sayle as a brilliant chronicler of big stories set in small worlds." The Times"
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Alexei Sayle is back, with a new collection of dark, timely, and comic tales, read by the author. These dazzlingly written stories cut right to the heart of the modern world.
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0340818689
- ISBN 13 9780340818688
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages312
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