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The Half-Life of Songs

The Half-Life of Songs

Short stories

Paperback (01 Nov 2010)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is David Gaffney's latest collection of micro stories. We see a world where thinking is illegal, belly dancers' blood is used to fertilize tomato plants, pensioners in leather trousers dance to two-step garage, and an architect steals crested newts and hides them in his bath.

The stories are often beyond odd yet always ordinary, a warped backward-talking world of Lynchian surreality, allowing an emotional insight into the rich interior lives of social outsiders, the broken and the easily-breakable, perpetually on the fringes of our world.

Book information

ISBN: 9781844717750
Publisher: Salt Publishing Limited
Imprint: Salt
Pub date:
Edition: Short stories
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 194
Weight: 232g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 16mm