· Reality, and Other Stories is a collection of eight contemporary ghost stories, with the horror stemming from the irresistible power that technology has over us. In real life we are obsessed Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Reality and Other Stories is the first short fiction collection from Lanchester, a sequence of very clever, very modern “entertainments” that play on our 21st-century obsession with technology Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Review: Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester. Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall. In , inspired in part by Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker.3/5.
The eight stories in the collection by John Lanchester titled, Reality and Other Stories, capture the mood of our time when truth and reality can seem flexible. We're often disconnected from life each day and distracted by the alerts on our devices more than being present in time and place. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life. Publisher: Faber Faber. ISBN: Number of pages: Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester - review: banal meets surreal in this ghostly collection. In this collection, John Lanchester gets inside people's heads and explore what makes us.
Reality, and Other Stories is a collection of eight contemporary ghost stories, with the horror stemming from the irresistible power that technology has over us. In real life we are obsessed. In , inspired in part by Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw,” the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. “Signal” was a sensation among readers and was featured on public radio—and it was the first short story of any kind Lanchester had ever written. Since then he’s written several more eerie stories of contemporary life and the perils of technology that plunk the reader down in the uncanny world of T he Twilight Zone or Black. Review: Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester. Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall. In , inspired in part by Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker.
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