Reality, John Lanchester
Reality, John Lanchester
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Reality
And Other Stories

Author: John Lanchester

Narrator: Anthony Boyle, Hugh Quarshie, Richard Armitage, Emilia Fox

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/09/2021

Categories: Fiction, Ghost, Short Stories

Synopsis

Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.

A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very foundations of human relations; and the merry contestants in a reality TV show may actually be . . . somewhere very hellish indeed. Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.

About John Lanchester

John Lanchester is the bestselling author of The Debt to Pleasure, Capital, and other works of fiction and nonfiction. His books, which have been translated into twenty-five languages, have won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily

I was interested in this book as i've read other novels by John Lanchester and wanted to also read his first collection of short stories. Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an advanced copy. This wasn’t a bad collection of short stories but I have to say I didn’t fall in love with them eithe......more

Goodreads review by Sam

Reality, and Other Stories collects eight horror-themed short stories by John Lanchester, most of which are kinda meh. Cold Call was my favourite. It’s about a lawyer/wife/mother of two who hates her dreary father-in-law for calling her at all hours to ask her dumb questions like where his remote is......more

Goodreads review by JimZ

There was one extremely good story, one very good story, a good story and then the rest were mediocre to IMHO no good (mean=2.8 stars). This comes from an author I truly respect. His first novel was in 1996, The Debt to Pleasure (won the 1996 Whitbread Book Award in the First Novel category and the......more

Goodreads review by Blair

I reviewed this for Sublime Horror. Read the full review here: Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester review – An intriguing, if familiar, step into the supernatural The eight tales in this collection are billed as ‘very modern ghost stories’, but they are often (and usually best when) very cos......more

Goodreads review by Krista

All philosophers are trolls. No offense, Jefferson. But that’s really the whole project, isn’t it? Trolling common sense, trolling reality. What if you aren’t real, what if we don’t know what we actually know, what if all this stuff we take for granted can’t be taken for granted, and what if we i......more

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