You Have 24 Hours to Love Us - Softcover

Guy Ware

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905583265 ISBN 13: 9781905583263

Publisher: Comma Press, 2013

Synopsis

Arriving at a nondescript suburban house, a middle-aged man is met by a new wife, a new past, and a memory he cannot surrender... A chance liaison outside Covent Garden tube station leads to a cruel game of make-believe... A chicken farmer on a remote mountainside is alarmed to learn the president of a faraway superpower needs his approval... Identity, in Guy Ware s confident debut collection, is a mercurial thing. Lawyers paint conflicting pictures of an alleged terrorist; a city trader decides, without warning, to walk out of her life; flirting lovers take role-play to a new, existential, level. Whether living under a totalitarian regime or simply getting through the day in a grindingly predictable metropolis, Ware s characters struggle with the urge to redefine themselves, to start again, to reboot. Knowing that the course of an entire life can hinge on the smallest decision turning left or right they ultimately remind us of the courage, as well as the coping mechanisms, of facing up to responsibilities and simply staying put.

About this title

Review:

'Clever, sustained and engaging fictions that toy with ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events...a daring and refreshing collection.' --Stuart Evers, The Independent

'A remarkably successful short story writer, the best I've read for a long, long time.' --Time Out

'A clever, playfully uncanny debut collection that has left me looking forward to more of Guy Ware's writing.' --Bookmunch

About the Author:

Guy Ware was born in Northampton and studied English at Oxford. While completing a D.Phil on William Blake he lived and worked with homeless ex-offenders, before training as a public finance accountant. He lives with his family in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Comma Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1905583265
• ISBN 13: 9781905583263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144