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Madame Zero Author: Sarah Hall

ISBN: 9780571290017 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 192 Published: 6 July 2017 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 22.2 x 15.0 x 1.5 Description: From the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award, a dazzling collection of stories about relationships, the fragility of human life, and the inescapable power of the natural world.

Madame Zero is a stunning new story collection embracing the darkness, eroticism, and absurdity of human existence.

One of our most celebrated authors, Sarah Hall is an exquisite chronicler of landscapes of all kinds - rural, industrial, bodily, psychological - and these gorgeous stories reveal a writer working at the peak of her powers.

Whether depicting a husband who finds his wife utterly transformed, a child who becomes a case study in wildness, or a road trip overwhelmed by buried phobias, Hall is always deeply attuned to the uncanny strangeness that underlies our everyday reality. In these memorable scenes, she delights in the mythic symbolism of wilderness and wasteland, and revels in blurring thresholds between the natural and urban, mundane and surreal, human and animal.

This is a haunting collection from a uniquely fertile imagination, written in lyrical prose glittering with the compacted pow...

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