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Subject(s)

• Apartment dwellers—Fiction [Browse]
• Neighbors—Fiction [Browse]
• Short stories, English [Browse]
• Great Britain—Social life and customs—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Short stories [Browse]

Summary note

"In Paradise Block, mould grows as thick as fur along the walls, alarms ring out at unexpected hours and none of the neighbours are quite what they seem. A little girl boils endless eggs in her family's burnt-out flat, an isolated old woman entices a new friend with gifts of cutlery and cufflinks, and a young bride grows frustrated with her unappreciative husband, the caretaker of creaking, dilapidated Paradise Block.With a haunting sense of place and a keen eye for the absurd, these thirteen surreal stories lure us into a topsy-turvy world where fleatraps are more important than babies and sales calls for luxury coffins provide a welcome distraction. Lonely residents live in close proximity while longing for connection."--Publisher.

Contents

• Eggs
• Planes
• The flea-trap
• You
• Timespeak
• Hungry
• Ball
• Complaint
• Doctor Sharpe
• Black, dark hill
• Sea God
• Bad elastic
• John's bride

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ISBN

• 1788165543 ((hardback))
• 9781788165549 ((hardback))

OCLC

1182844567

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