Bibliograph

Darker with the lights on, stories, David Hayden

Type

Label

Darker with the lights on, stories, David Hayden

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Darker with the lights on

Oclc number

1006302019

Responsibility statement

David Hayden

Sub title

stories

Summary

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. An undercurrent of primal violence runs through the tales. In the first story, Egress, a man steps out from a high ledge on his office building, to fall with fresh delight and keeps on falling, somehow outside the laws of gravity and time. Another story, The Bread that was Broken, records the mannered conversation at a glittering dinner party where the centrepiece is a blackened, smoking corpse

Target audience

general

Classification