Reality: And Other Stories
By John Lanchester
Read by Emilia Fox, Richard Armitage, Antony Boyle, and Hugh Quarsie
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Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall. A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very foundations of human relations; and the merry contestants in a reality TV show may actually be … somewhere very hellish indeed. Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very foundations of human relations; and the merry contestants in a reality TV show may actually be … somewhere very hellish indeed. Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.
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Author Bio: John Lanchester
John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, and Observer, among others.
He has won the Whitbread and Hawthornden Awards, as well as being awarded the 2008 E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.
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| Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 4.97 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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