Let Me Tell You A Little Story
Let Me Tell You a Little Story
by Martin Phipps
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About the Book
The people who populate these 24 stories include Soviet commandos, South American littérateurs, six-teenth-century seafarers, lovelorn academics, halluc-inating layabouts, erotic epistolizers, witless fitness freaks, minor Biblical figures apocryphally enlarged upon, Catholic priests with colourful pasts, crazed samurai, homicidal grandmothers, henpecked Latin-ists, Hell-bound factory managers, effete Oxonians, Russian neuro-hackers, agoraphobic misanthropes, extraterrestrial envoys, an atheist in a foxhole, a billionaire in a desert, and a girl named Felicity Peachstone who's as sweet as a peach and as cold as a stone. There's also a network of surveillance satellites known collectively as the Global Oversight Device, or GOD.
All of which—from the comic to the cautionary to the satiric to the just plain silly—is summoned up for no better reason than to illustrate, and evoke, the pure pleasure of storytelling. It's what we did before smartphones. Remember?
All of which—from the comic to the cautionary to the satiric to the just plain silly—is summoned up for no better reason than to illustrate, and evoke, the pure pleasure of storytelling. It's what we did before smartphones. Remember?
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Literature & Fiction Books
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Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
# of Pages: 260 - Publish Date: Jul 14, 2018
- Language English
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About the Creator
Martin Phipps
Canada
Martin Phipps is the author of: The Sexes; The Concentrationists; More Wine?; Rue des Mensonges; Imaginary Friends; The Hard Way; and three books of short stories. He's written for the newsletter of The Anthony Burgess Center and of The International Anthony Burgess Foundation.