Description
A woman orders a sex doll for her husbandโs birthday. A man makes films without a camera. A married couple take turns to sit in an electric chair. Cathy Sweeneyโs wonderfully inventive debut collection offers snapshots of an unsettling, dislocated world. Surprising and uncanny, funny and transgressive, these stories only look like distortions of reality.โCathy Sweeneyโs stories have already attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and this first collection is as marvellous as we could have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut.โ
โKevin Barry
โI loved this collection. It vibrates with a glorious strangeness! Magnificently weird, hugely entertaining, deeply profound.โ
โDanielle McLaughlin
โIn Modern Times, Cathy Sweeney gives us fables of the present that are funny, vertiginous and melancholy.โ
โDavid Hayden ISBN:9781906539832
