Cannon Fodder - Couverture souple

Hayles, David L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0436205475 ISBN 13 : 9780436205477

Editeur : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 2005

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

David L. Hayles's debut collection of stories, The Suicide Kit, drew comparisons with Roald Dahl, Ian McEwan and Iain Banks. In Cannon Fodder, Hayles gives us a world of demented misfits, sleazy sex tourists, killer inmates, has-beens and never-weres.

In 'The Process', a desperate man signs up to rid himself of his debts but at a terrible cost; in 'Savage Incidents at the College Reunion', an alumni fancy dress disco descends into a bloodbath thanks to an inopportune choice of costume; and in 'Death Row Diary', a brutish warden's censoring of letters has grim results. Elsewhere there are excursions into the variously doomed and sordid worlds of failed western actors, homicidal would-be writers and the suburban dogging scene.

Stories so black they should come with a torch, Cannon Fodder takes you to a place where life isn't just cheap, they're giving it away.

Revue de presse :

"Imagine Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected adapted for the screen by Tarantino and you're pretty much there" (Laurence Phelan Independent on Sunday)

"Genuinely excellent" (The Sun)

"Sussex writer Hayles has a dark, skewed outlook on the world and combined with a fiendish sense of humour, it makes these stories well worth the time" (Glasgow Herald)

"Hayles nails wildly different voices with a few short strokes, then washes it all down with a flagon of treacly black humour" (Arena)

"Hunter S Thompson would have loved these tales. Beautifully weird and told in deceptively simple prose" (Daily Express)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0436205475
• ISBN 13: 9780436205477
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208