Notes from the Fog
By (Author) Ben Marcus
Granta Books
Granta Books
24th October 2018
6th September 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
813.6
Paperback
288
Width 130mm, Height 195mm, Spine 15mm
250g
'I wake up and I have to make the right choice,' he said.
Master-stylist Ben Marcus returns with a wonder-cabinet of brain-rearranging stories. From the horrifyingly strange to the deeply touching, each story is a literary masterclass unlikely to leave the reader unchanged.
From parent/child relationships thrown agonisingly off kilter, to intensely moving scenarios of dependence and emotional crisis; from left-alone bodies to new scientific frontiers, Ben Marcus is the great chronicler of the contemporary uncanny and the peculiar future.
Piece by piece, he takes us apart.
Ben Marcus is the author of The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper's and the Paris Review. Marcus has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is on the faculty at Columbia University in New York.