$42.99
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
7 February 2022
Summary
This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own.
A corporate satire follows a pair of dark operatives working for a chicken franchise as they take careful revenge on counterfeiters. A coder calculates the odds of her husband’s cold developing complications and killing him, in a story told in code. A relationship at breaking point is told via a scrambled timeline of ev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743058916 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743058918 |
| Author: | Andrew Roff |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
‘At turns dreamlike, luminously satirical, fever-pitched and achingly mortal, the scope of Andrew Roff’s debut collection is utterly refreshing and a joy to linger in.’ - Josephine Rowe
‘A bold and exciting collection.’ - Laura Elvery
‘A collection bursting with vitality and variety, the stories ranging widely in form and theme, sometimes affecting, sometimes amusing, and never less than wildly entertaining.’ - Ryan O’Neill
About The Author
Andrew Roff
Andrew Roff’s debut short story collection, The Teeth of a Slow Machine, was released in 2022 by Wakefield Press. He was a winner of the 2021 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition, the 2020 Peter Carey Short Story Award, and the 2018 Margaret River Press Short Story Competition. He completed a two week residential fellowship at Varuna House in 2017. Andrew’s short fiction and non-fiction has appeared widely, including in the Guardian, Meanjin, Island, Overland, Southerly, Westerly, Griffith Review and Going Down Swinging. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, for an unpublished crime novel.
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