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Getting It In the Head
Stories
Author: Mike McCormack
Narrator: Roger Clark, Esther Wane
Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HighBridge
Published: 04/06/2021
Category: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Synopsis
Originally published in 1996, the first book from the author of Booker-listed Solar Bones is a dark, uncanny collection of stunning breadth and audacity. In this gothic, virtuoso debut collection (a New York Times Notable Book), Mike McCormack dispenses nightmares both stylish and macabre. 'A Is for Ax' offers alphabetized look at the killing of a parent, while the title story tracks a chilling sibling rivalry. Other works here offer multiple-quiz on the road to Calvary, a door-to-door saleswoman trafficking in strange and menacing feats, and a self-mutilating artist pushing himself to the limit. These sly and dangerous stories show us a young writer who was already a master of wicked formal play, and whose sly takes on life and death remain profoundly unsettling.