The Moon is Trending
Published on 15. June 2023
144 pages
978-1-78463-288-5 (ISBN)
Description
This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, sexuality, and work, that arise in a success-obsessed capitalist culture. Dazzling, playful, and experimental, it veers between the real, the surreal and the absurd.
Reviews / Votes
Clare Fisher's short fictions go a long way. She writes with humour and insight and real skill, about our bodies and our selves, and the world we're in, and about the fragile net of thoughts that holds us. -- Keith Ridgway Short though its components are, it doesn't do to read The Moon Is Trending through all the way through. You'd think it'd be easy to read twenty-seven very short stories in one go, but it didn't play out like that. I read one, sometimes two-no more than three-in a row at a time. It works to be dipped into and out of. To be picked up and put it down. To be gone back and forth to. To be recommended. -- JL Bogenschneider * The London Magazine * Sharp, playful, often surreal and just as often soulful shards of contemporary and queer life and longing. -- Lucy CaldwellMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
0,59 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78463-288-5 (9781784632885)
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Person
Clare Fisher is a novelist, short story writer, creative writing teacher and editorial consultant. Her debut novel All the Good Things (Viking, Penguin, 2017) won a Betty Trask Award and was published in eight territories worldwide. How the Light Gets In, a collection of short stories was published by Influx in 2018, and longlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. She lives in Leeds.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- WTAF
- No Sense of Direction
- Where's Your Head At?
- Leak-Proof
- Think Outside The Box
- Living the Dream
- Stophanie
- Same Difference
- People Also Ask
- So What Style of Attachment Would You Call This?
- More Than Not-Sweeping
- Sex, Drugs and Dead Birds
- The Real Meaning of Coffee
- Crime With No Culprit
- Exnamuh
- Clunky
- Everything You Need & More&
- Thruple
- Terms and Conditions
- Your Cervical Cancer Screening Test Is Overdue
- The Big Squeeze
- Some People Have Real Problems
- Last Dance
- After The Noise
- Either Happy, So Happy, Too Happy Or
- Who's There?
- Inappropriate
- Acknowledgements
- About this Book
- About the Author
- Also by Clare Fisher
- Copyright
