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Room Little Darker
June Caldwell
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Description for Room Little Darker
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From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of wanton sex, broken relationships and futuristic nightmares. An abusive father haunts his daughter and wife from the confines of a nursing home; a couple with an appetite for S&M discover their escapades have led them into something unimaginably bleak; a desperate addict scours the depths of degradation in a nightmare Dublin; an unborn foetus narrates her torturous experience of the Irish legal system; a paedophile acquires a robotic little boy ... Read more
From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of wanton sex, broken relationships and futuristic nightmares. An abusive father haunts his daughter and wife from the confines of a nursing home; a couple with an appetite for S&M discover their escapades have led them into something unimaginably bleak; a desperate addict scours the depths of degradation in a nightmare Dublin; an unborn foetus narrates her torturous experience of the Irish legal system; a paedophile acquires a robotic little boy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781788542906
SKU
9781788542906
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About June Caldwell
June Caldwell worked for many years as a journalist before becoming a fiction writer. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen's University Belfast, and lives in Dublin.
Reviews for Room Little Darker
'I remain deeply troubled by June Caldwell's debut collection of short stories' TLS, Books of the Year. 'If Dubliners was a realist masterpiece, Room Little Darker is its hyper-realist counterpart, applying Joyce's stated rubric of scrupulous meanness to the city's contemporary inhabitants, and a future that's approaching all too fast' Frankie Gaffney, Irish Times. 'Caldwell climbs headfirst and ... Read more