Life-Like (Hardcover)

Emotionally compelling and formally innovative, "Life-Like" is Toby Litt's most ambitious collection of short stories to date, bringing to fruition themes first aired in his previous books, "Adventures in Capitalism," "Exhibitionism, " and "I Play the Drums in a Band Called ""Okay. Life-Like" is a book about our globalizing and atomizing world--with stories set in India, Sweden, Australia, and Iran--that also looks at how we meet and fail to meet and what connects us to one another, as well as waste and communication, and, in turn, communication through waste.
The twenty-six stories begin with Paddy and Agatha, an English couple last seen in Litt's "Ghost Story. "Following the stillbirth of their second child, their marriage has gently begun to collapse. Paddy and Agatha both meet someone else. First, Paddy meets Kavita, and Agatha meets John. Then each of these four engages with a different new person--and so on, through a doubling and redoubling of intimately interconnected stories. The remaining short stories exemplify Litt's impressive, unflinching prose.

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Toby Litt
Dimensions:	159 x 230 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-0-85742-207-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-85742-207-3
Barcode:	9780857422071

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