Weight | 0.186 kg |
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Dimensions | 197 × 130 × 17 mm |
ISBN | 9781849920551 |
Cover | Paperback |
Publication Year | 2010 |
Publisher | David Fickling Books |
The Wall of Sky, the Wall of Eye
£5.00Jonathan Lethem again displays his brilliance in this collection of seven short stories, blurring the boundaries of sci-fi, mystery, and thriller. Tales include ‘Light and the Sufferer’, in which a crack addict is dogged by an invulnerable alien; ‘The Hardened Criminals’, wherein convicts are used as building blocks for new prisons; and ‘The Happy Man’, whose hapless protagonist is raised from the dead to support his family, only to suffer periodic out-of-body sojourns in Hell. Each tale features Lethem’s characteristic deadpan wit and unflinchingly macabre vision of life.