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- Author: Frank Burton
- Publisher: Dog Horn Publishing
- Year: 2013
- Pages: 158
- ISBN-10: 1907133011
- ISBN-13: 9781907133015
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Sometimes stories that I've used to mythologize my childhood resurface in my mind as actual memories ... Perhaps if you tell a story enough times, it will become the truth." This admission by Mark Greensleeves, in 'Some Facts About Me', sums up Frank Burton's sharp, surreal and subversive short story collection, A History of Sarcasm. The seventeen stories in this collection blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed versions of reality. Among them are a man who insists on living every aspect of his life in alphabetical order, a girl who believes she is receiving secret messages through the TV, a paranoiac who is pursued by an army of giant lobsters, and an academic werecat.
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- Author: Frank Burton
- Publisher: Dog Horn Publishing
- Year: 2013
- Pages: 158
- ISBN-10: 1907133011
- ISBN-13: 9781907133015
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Sometimes stories that I've used to mythologize my childhood resurface in my mind as actual memories ... Perhaps if you tell a story enough times, it will become the truth." This admission by Mark Greensleeves, in 'Some Facts About Me', sums up Frank Burton's sharp, surreal and subversive short story collection, A History of Sarcasm. The seventeen stories in this collection blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed versions of reality. Among them are a man who insists on living every aspect of his life in alphabetical order, a girl who believes she is receiving secret messages through the TV, a paranoiac who is pursued by an army of giant lobsters, and an academic werecat.
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