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Title: |
The Measure of Sorrow |
| Sub-title: |
Stories |
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| By (author): |
J. Ashley-Smith |
| ISBN10-13: |
1946154776 : 9781946154774 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
202 |
| Weight: |
.272 Kg. |
| Published: |
Meerkat Press - June 2023 |
| List Price: |
13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
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| Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smithâ s first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncleâ s insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in The Measure of Sorrow elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true. |
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