內(nèi)容簡介:Most of these vivid and unsettling stories are rooted in apparently everyday lives and situations, but suddenly become surreal or disturbing. Reading them feels as though you’re walking along in the real world and suddenly you step off an edge into a void, where rules of gravity and normality have disappeared but life carries on. Full of Woodward’s trademark mix of humour, pathos, dysfunctional families and disappointed lives, they contain also dazzling moments of illumination, perfect imagery and intimations of mortality.
作者簡介:Gerard Woodward is the author of an acclaimed sequence of novels: August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award), I’ll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and A Curious Earth. He published several prize-winning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. He teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.