Life-Like
Life-Like
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The twenty-six stories begin with Paddy and Agatha, an English couple last seen in Litt’s Ghost Story. Following the stillbirth of their second child, their marriage has gently begun to collapse. Paddy and Agatha both meet someone else. First, Paddy meets Kavita, and Agatha meets John. Then each of these four engages with a different new person—and so on, through a doubling and redoubling of intimately interconnected stories. The remaining short stories exemplify Litt’s impressive, unflinching prose.
“Litt has a streak of playfulness in him. . . . His narratives freely venture into unexpected forms, from cartoons to a screenplay to a Twitter feed. But the subject is the age-old one of connection.” —Wall Street Journal
“Quite an important addition. . ” —The Guardian
“Litt’s writing is comic with a deadpan delivery, and sometimes shockingly observant. . . . Enormously clever.” —Times
“An essential purchase for short story fans but an equally essential purchase for anyone who likes great fiction. Litt is on top form.” —Bookmunch
“The book reads like primitive magic. . . . Litt’s is the exquisite imagination that is first about the infamy of forgetting and then its corroding detachment.” —3:AM Magazine
- ISBN: 9780857422071
- Pages: 274 , 10 line drawings
- Size (inches): 6" x 9
- Format: Hardback
- Publication Year: November, 2014
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Seagull Books (estd 1982) has been crafting books with an eye to both exceptional content and radical design. What began highly risky business of publishing books-books on alternative cinema, philosophy, culture-continues to be a passionately felt need of the hour: manuscripts that need to see the light of day, instinctive and theatre, visual arts, to reach a readership, to stimulate minds, to change outlooks. Read More
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