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A bold voice in absurdist short fiction Intelligent clothing, superhero dictators, contagion-carrying computer games, cross-species reproduction. Welcome to the strange and startling world of Adam Marek; a menagerie of futuristic technology, sinister traditions, and scientifically grounded superpowers -- a place where the absurd and the mundane are not merely bedfellows, but interbreed. At the core of Adam Marek's much-anticipated second short story collection is a single, unifying theme: a parent's instinct to protect a particularly vulnerable child. Whether set amid unnerving visions of the near-future or grounded in the domestic here-and-now, these stories demonstrate that, sometimes, only outright surrealism can do justice to the merciless strangeness of reality, that only the fantastically illogical can steel us against what ordinary life threatens. Bonus BackLit materials will include an interview and a list of Marek's recommended books.
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"Marek's talent for an almost sweet grotesqueness is on full display." --"National Post "
"The stories by this assured British writer are fantastical, inventive, grotesque, sometimes funny, and often disturbing." --"Toronto Star"
"Strongly entertaining and tautly written, these [stories] are for the literary reader who enjoys a sudden twist away from the ordinary." --"Booklist" (April 2013)
"Wild and engaging"--Michael Hingston, "Georgia Straight (June 2013)"
"Throw away your preconceptions of the short story, because Adam Marek is single-handedly reviving the genre."--Amy Anderson, "Scene (June 2013)"
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"The stories by this assured British writer are fantastical, inventive, grotesque, sometimes funny, and often disturbing." --"Toronto Star"
"Strongly entertaining and tautly written, these [stories] are for the literary reader who enjoys a sudden twist away from the ordinary." --"Booklist" (April 2013)
"Wild and engaging"--Michael Hingston, "Georgia Straight (June 2013)"
"Throw away your preconceptions of the short story, because Adam Marek is single-handedly reviving the genre."--Amy Anderson, "Scene (June 2013)"
Adam Marek is an award-winning short story writer. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He is the author of "Instruction Manual for Swallowing," which was nominated for the Frank O'Connor Prize.
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