Darker With the Lights On

by David Hayden

Overview

Driven hypnotically forward by a powerful, deeply felt narrative force, the stories in this debut collection pull off that rare trick of captivating the reader, while twisting the form into truly new shapes. With an imagist’s flair for photographic observation and unsettling, often startling, emotional landscapes, Darker With the Lights On introduces a mesmeric new literary talent with seismic potential.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945492112
Publisher:	Transit Books
Publication date:	05/15/2018
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

Editorial Reviews

"It’s an open secret that David Hayden is one of the most interesting short story writers around. Why it’s taken this long for his first collection to be published is beyond me but I, along with anyone with even the vaguest interest in looking at modernism anew, will be queuing up for a copy."—Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

"Once in a blue moon, a book comes along that really is like nothing you’ve ever read before. The 20 stories in this debut collection from David Hayden are strange, uncomfortable fables of memory, metamorphosis, time, disassociation and death: hard to fathom, but impossible to ignore; twisty and riddling, yet with a blunt impact that reverberates long after the final page."—The Guardian

"Quietly innovative, subtle of tone, full of feeling—this is a superb debut"—Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane

"One of the most startlingly brilliant and original debuts I've ever read. Hayden is one hell of a talent."—David Collard

"Very, very fine fictions, which captivate and seduce the reader . . . Beautiful, luminous, and written with poetic economy and precision.”—David Winters

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