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Hostages
Oisin Fagan
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Description for Hostages
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A bomb is born, lives and dies in a demented rural school; Ireland experiences a rain of corpses falling from the sky; a strange tribal matriarchy on the banks of the River Boyne is threatened with extermination. In these five long stories the world breaks down in an endless cycle of hunger, desperation, violence and domination. This is a truly radical vision of a dysfunctional yet stubbornly hopeful world, quite unlike any other in contemporary fiction.
A bomb is born, lives and dies in a demented rural school; Ireland experiences a rain of corpses falling from the sky; a strange tribal matriarchy on the banks of the River Boyne is threatened with extermination. In these five long stories the world breaks down in an endless cycle of hunger, desperation, violence and domination. This is a truly radical vision of a dysfunctional yet stubbornly hopeful world, quite unlike any other in contemporary fiction.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781788546683
SKU
9781788546683
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-5
About Oisin Fagan
Oisin Fagan has had short fiction published in The Stinging Fly, New Planet Cabaret and the anthology Young Irelanders, with work featured in the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In 2016, he won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for The Hierophants. Hostages, his first collection, was also published in 2016 by New Island. He is represented by C+W.
Reviews for Hostages
'The end of the world is seemingly always just around the corner. But Hostages is funny and cheerful for all that ... Fagan renders his DayGlo-Bruegelish nightmares in a careless, cliche-free Anglo-Irish [with] a generous dose of black wit' Spectator. 'Fagan sounds an original and startling note ... This is a collection that is imaginative, well crafted, and, above all, ... Read more