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Title: Salt Slow
Author: ARMFIELD JULIA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 28/05/2019
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
<b>'Armfield is an enormous, gut-wrenching talent.' Daisy Johnson, author of <i>Everything Under</i></b>
<b>'<i>salt slow</i> is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful and poised.' China Miéville, author of <i>The City & The City</i></b>
This collection of short stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of its characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession and love. Throughout the collection, women become insects, men turn to stone, a city becomes insomniac and bodies are picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sea side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to the bodies of its inhabitants. Blending the mythic and the gothic, the collection considers characters in motion – turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new.
From Julia Armfield, the winner of <i>The White Review </i>Short Story Prize 2018, <i>Salt Slow</i> is an extraordinary collection of short stories that are sure to dazzle and shock.
ISBN: 9781529012569
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 208