Name: hungry for what: stories
Brand: Maria Bastaros

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Catalogue number

9781914198687

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Format Books GB

Paperback

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Limited edition

Release date

2024-06-13

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Supplier GB

Harper Collins

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Standard:20

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Artist

Maria Bastaros 

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Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of blackly comic short stories.

A game between a woman’s father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her grieving mother; a solar eclipse burns emotions and lies out into the open; a girl flees across a desert in the pitch-black night. In these stories of suffocating atmosphere, the bland restraint of ordinary life careers into violence and darkness; they are hand grenades thrown at mundanity and the status quo.

Foregrounding the voices and experiences of women and children and veering from claustrophobic suburbia to untamed nature and its great vistas of desert and sky,&nbsp;hungry for what&nbsp;focuses on the terror of normality, prising back its veneer of respectability to reveal the hostility and menace seething beneath.

hungry for what: stories 

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Discover hungry for what: stories by Maria Bastaros. A collection of blackly comic short stories that shatter the smooth surface of everyday life. Available in various formats from granta.