Description
| Product ID: | 9781529012590 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Salt Slow |
| Subtitle: | From the author of Our Wives Under the Sea |
| Authors: | Author: Julia Armfield |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Salt Slow is the electrifying debut collection of short stories about the monstrous in all of us, from a prize-winning British talent. <p><b>In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores the body, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge.<br><br>'Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' – M John Harrison, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Teenagers develop ungodly appetites, a city becomes insomniac overnight, and bodies are diligently picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sleepy sea-side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to its inhabitants.<br><br>Blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, S<i>alt Slow </i>considers characters in motion – turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new entirely.<br><br>Winner of <i>The White Review </i>Short Story Prize, Armfield is a writer of sharp, lyrical prose and tilting dark humour.<br><br><b>'<i>Salt Slow</i> is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful and poised.' – China Miéville, author of <i>The City & The City</i></b><br><br><b>'The stories in this collection look at women’s bodies and their experiences in society with an eerie, otherworldly lense . . . For fans of Carmen Maria Machado, Sophie Mackintosh and Megan Hunter' –<i>Elle</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-03-19 |
