The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories
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- USD 8.99
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- USD 8.99
Descripción editorial
Eugen Bacon's work is deemed cheeky with a fierce intelligence in text that's resplendent, delicious, dark and evocative. NPR called her novel Claiming T-Mo 'a confounding mysterious tour de force'. The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories imbues the same lushness in a writerly language that is Bacon's own. This peculiar hybrid of the untraditional, the extraordinary within, without and along the borders of normalcy will hypnotise and absorb the reader with tales that refuse to be labelled. The stories in this collection are dirges that cross genres in astounding ways. Over 20 provocative tales, with seven original to this collection, by an award-winning African Australian author.
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Bacon (Claiming T-Mo) delivers a commanding and visionary collection of speculative shorts, encompassing surrealism, fantasy, science fiction, and gorgeous, painterly literary fiction. It would be a disservice to call any of these 24 stories the standout, as each is impressive and beautifully rendered in Bacon's distinct, poetic voice. The stunning title story follows a pair of lovers on a tense road trip that grows increasingly surreal, told in rhythmic, abstract prose ("Tumbling down the stretch, a confident glide, the 4WD is a beaut, over nineteen years old. The argument is brand-new"). In the moving "Swimming with Daddy," a little girl reflects on how her father taught her to swim. The humorous "Beatitudes" tells of the first meeting of a young siren and a salesman who has been turned into a toad. Science fictional offerings include "Ace Zone," about a young woman traveling from planet to planet to draft soldiers into her battalion, and "Playback, Jury of the Heart," a tale of love that transcends time and space. Complex, earnest, and striking, Bacon's impeccable work is sure to blow readers away.
