Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Modern Times

Cathy Sweeney
3.14/5 (365 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
A woman orders a sex doll for her husband’s birthday. A man makes films without a camera. A married couple take turns to sit in an electric chair. Cathy Sweeney’s wonderfully inventive debut collection offers snapshots of an unsettling, dislocated world. Surprising and uncanny, funny and transgressive, these stories only look like distortions of reality.

“Cathy Sweeney’s stories have already attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and this first collection is as marvellous as we could have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut.”
—Kevin Barry

“I loved this collection. It vibrates with a glorious strangeness! Magnificently weird, hugely entertaining, deeply profound.”
—Danielle McLaughlin

“In Modern Times, Cathy Sweeney gives us fables of the present that are funny, vertiginous and melancholy.”
—David Hayden
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
152 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
The Stinging Fly Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1906539839
ISBN13:
9781906539832
kindle Asin:
B084Q5VQ5J

Modern Times

Cathy Sweeney
3.14/5 (365 ratings)
Read Download
A woman orders a sex doll for her husband’s birthday. A man makes films without a camera. A married couple take turns to sit in an electric chair. Cathy Sweeney’s wonderfully inventive debut collection offers snapshots of an unsettling, dislocated world. Surprising and uncanny, funny and transgressive, these stories only look like distortions of reality.

“Cathy Sweeney’s stories have already attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and this first collection is as marvellous as we could have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut.”
—Kevin Barry

“I loved this collection. It vibrates with a glorious strangeness! Magnificently weird, hugely entertaining, deeply profound.”
—Danielle McLaughlin

“In Modern Times, Cathy Sweeney gives us fables of the present that are funny, vertiginous and melancholy.”
—David Hayden
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
152 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
The Stinging Fly Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1906539839
ISBN13:
9781906539832
kindle Asin:
B084Q5VQ5J

More Books

Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

Sofie Hagen

Peach

Emma Glass

That Old Country Music

Kevin Barry

Zombie

Joyce Carol Oates

The Whale Tattoo

Jon Ransom

Serge

Yasmina Reza

Butter

Asako Yuzuki

Dark Lies the Island

Kevin Barry

L'anniversario

Andrea Bajani

Sirene

Laura Pugno

Ex-Wife

Ursula Parrott

Weasels in the Attic

Hiroko Oyamada