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Description for The Museum of Doubt
Paperback. A collection of short stories from an award-winning writer. The characters in these stories are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 124 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The array of characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.
The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The array of characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841958088
SKU
KST0006822
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Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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99-1
About James Meek
James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is his fourth novel. His previous book, The People's Act of Love (2005), won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into more ... Read more
Reviews for The Museum of Doubt
Demanding and rewarding, lyrical and vernacular, smart and entertaining.
Times Literary Supplement
Ricochets between the supernatural and the suburban throughout...the writing fizzes...This is true experimental writing: careless of taboo, teeming with ideas, elusive yet utterly controlled.
Guardian
Bristling with wit and invention, these tales are full of hair-brained ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
Ricochets between the supernatural and the suburban throughout...the writing fizzes...This is true experimental writing: careless of taboo, teeming with ideas, elusive yet utterly controlled.
Guardian
Bristling with wit and invention, these tales are full of hair-brained ... Read more