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Life-Like
Toby Litt
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Description for Life-Like
Hardback. A collection of short stories that is about our globalizing and atomizing world - with stories set in India, Sweden, Australia, and Iran - that also looks at how we meet and fail to meet and what connects us to one another, as well as waste and communication, and, in turn, communication through waste. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
Emotionally compelling and formally innovative, Life-Like is Toby Litt's most ambitious collection of short stories to date, bringing to fruition themes begun in his previous books, Adventures in Capitalism, Exhibitionism, and I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay. Life-Like is a book about our globalizing and atomizing world - with stories set in India, Sweden, Australia, and Iran - that also looks at how we meet and fail to meet and what connects us to one another, as well as waste and communication, and, in turn, communication through waste. The twenty-six stories begin with Paddy and Agatha, ... Read more
Emotionally compelling and formally innovative, Life-Like is Toby Litt's most ambitious collection of short stories to date, bringing to fruition themes begun in his previous books, Adventures in Capitalism, Exhibitionism, and I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay. Life-Like is a book about our globalizing and atomizing world - with stories set in India, Sweden, Australia, and Iran - that also looks at how we meet and fail to meet and what connects us to one another, as well as waste and communication, and, in turn, communication through waste. The twenty-six stories begin with Paddy and Agatha, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
557g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857422071
SKU
V9780857422071
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About Toby Litt
Toby Litt is senior lecturer in creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London. He has published three collections of stories and eight novels and also writes the comic Dead Boy Detectives.
Reviews for Life-Like
One of the most prolific of the newer generation of British novelists and a young master of a scarily dynamic prose. (Guardian)