Donwood, Stanley

Humor

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ISBN 13:
9780571376674
author:
Donwood, Stanley
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Faber & Faber
language:
English
Publication Year:
2023
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
19.6 x 13 x 1.5 centimetres (0.1
Genre:
Fiction & Literature, General, Fiction & Literature,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£10.70

Description

Stanley Donwood's Humor presents a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence. In this collection of brief, haunting episodes, he explores the human body's four humors - sanguine, phlegm, choler and melancholy - to rummage beneath the veneer of sanity that passes for civilised society. Darkly funny and spooky, these stories are apocalyptic in their intensity, presenting a series of unsettling encounters with menacing machines and otherworldly presences. Relationships are unstable, disappearances are everyday, and nature has turned unnatural. Unsettling dreams segue into waking nightmares, leaving the reader to navigate a landscape of shifting perspectives and creeping shadows. Through his masterful use of the micro-narrative, Donwood reveals himself as a contemporary master of the genre, crafting a series of intense, hallucinogenic episodes that are both humorous and haunting.

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