Abstract
Holly Howitt’s microfictions confront the reader with an unsafe world on the edge of implosion or disintegration, a world where the contours are forever folding in upon themselves. The tour de force of the collection is undoubtedly ‘Dinner Time’, a sequence describing, in powerfully surreal imagery, the extremities of lust, longing and cruelty, between a man, a woman (and a dog), that is both awful and intoxicating in its attention to detail and its evocation of an obsessed state of mind. Nothing is quite what it seems here; a quality which intrigues the reader, inciting one to turn the page and discover where we are going next. The tales are gripping, the writing is intelligent, measured, funny, frequently delicious.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Blaenau Ffestiniog (Wales) |
| Publisher | Cinnamon Press |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781905614530 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |