Name: Reality and Other Stories By John Lanchester
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Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester

In 2017, 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, an eerie story of contemporary life and the perils of technology, was a sensation among readers-and since then Lanchester has written several more.

Reality and Other Stories gathers the best of these, taking readers to an uncanny world familiar to fans of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Mysterious cell-phone calls from unknown numbers. Reality TV shows and the creeping suspicion that none of this is real...

Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.

Reality and Other Stories Reviews

A smart book, scary as hell, and also a whole lot of fun...[Reality and Other Stories is] as endlessly entertaining as it is legitimately frightening. -- Michael Schaub, NPR.org
Ingenious...[Lanchester's stories] send a shiver down the spine. -- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
John Lanchester's collection of tech-y ghost stories seems especially appealing right now...The eight tales in Lanchester's Reality and Other Stories are meant to entertain, to take you out of yourself for a space-and that they deftly do. -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
This intriguing debut collection grapples with technology and its illusion of convenience, choice and escape. Lanchester, a British novelist and journalist, has a sharp eye for social class and setting in his ghost stories for the digital age. -- Vanessa Hua, New York Times Book Review
Brisk, vinegar-sharp satires that horrify and amuse in equal measure. -- Guardian
A mind-bending collection about the multifaceted scariness of the way we live now. -- Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Very clever, very modern 'entertainments.' -- Financial Times (UK)
Across these immensely enjoyable and varied tales, Lanchester embraces the camp silliness of the gothic sensibility, while also making astute observations about our ever-developing digital reality. -- Booklist

About John Lanchester

John Lanchester is the author of five novels, including The Debt to Pleasure and Capital. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He lives in London.

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9780393540918

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Title

Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester

Author

John Lanchester

Condition

Used - Good

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Hardback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

20210309

Number of pages

192

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