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Modern Times

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Modern Times

Penned By Cathy Sweeney
4.85 48,405 Ratings
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A woman orders a sex doll for her husband’s birthday. A man makes films without a camera. A married couple take turns to sit in an electric chair. Cathy Sweeney’s wonderfully inventive debut collection offers snapshots of an unsettling, dislocated world. Surprising and uncanny, funny and transgressive, these stories only look like distortions of reality.“Cathy Sweeney’s stories have already attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and this first collection is as marvellous as we could have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut.”—Kevin Barry“I loved this collection. It vibrates with a glorious strangeness! Magnificently weird, hugely entertaining, deeply profound.”—Danielle McLaughlin“In Modern Times, Cathy Sweeney gives us fables of the present that are funny, vertiginous and melancholy.”—David Hayden

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Length 152 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint The Stinging Fly Press
Released June 23, 2020
Identifier (ISBN) 52067244
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Cathy Sweeney is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Cathy Sweeney can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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