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Instruction Manual for SwallowingAdam Marek
Categories: 21st Century, British, First Collections, Humour
Imprint: Comma Press Publisher: Comma Press Available as:
Robotic insects, in-growing cutlery, flesh-serving waiters in a zombie cafe...
Welcome to the surreal, misshapen universe of Adam Marek’s first collection; a bestiary of hybrids from the techno-crazed future and mythical past; a users’ guide to the seemingly obvious (and the world of illogic implicit within it). Whether fantastical or everyday in setting, Marek’s stories lead us down to the engine room just beneath modern consciousness, a place of both atavism and familiarity, where the body is fluid, the spirit mechanised, and beasts often tell us more about our humanity than anything we can teach ourselves.
Awards won by Adam Marek
Short-listed, 2011 BBC National Short Story Award. (The Stone Thrower )
Winner, 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship
Praise for Adam Marek
'The fragility of children is overwhelming in this collection. In stories beautiful and strange, Marek tries to build a kind of fortress against what would truly break us. This is writing as exorcism and prayer, words to dispel brutality and fate.'
David Vann 'The Stone Thrower is best viewed as a window on Marekâs distinctive imagination, in which the mundane waltzes with the macabre... this bold young writer is refreshing the form.' The Financial Times 'Hits the target every time.' The Guardian
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