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DISAPPEARING ACT

DISAPPEARING ACT

A HOST OF OTHER CHARACTERS IN 16 SHORT STORIES

ROBERT SHEEHAN

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GILL BOOKS
Año de edición:
2021
ISBN:
978-0-7171-8970-0
Páginas:
272
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Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland's brightest stars, both at home and abroad. Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Academy, in his debut collection of short stories, Sheehan disappears into characters and experiences the challenges and the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.

Surreal, intelligent, dark, and provocative, the collection presents a multitude of observations that will stay with the reader long after the book is finished.

Informed by the author's peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behavior. Sheehan delves deep into his characters' streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, and explores the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.

"A whacked-out, kaleidoscopic miasma of delightful abandon and fun." - Patrick McCabe

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