Notes from the Fog

Notes from the Fog
ISBN-10
1101971681
ISBN-13
9781101971680
Category
Fiction
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2019-07-09
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Ben Marcus

Description

Ben Marcus returns with a collection of timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. Here a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured from testing his employer's newest nutrition supplement; a father starts to suspect that his son's precocity has turned sinister; and two architects in a failing marriage must consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion as they construct a memorial to a terrorist attack. It's these characters and others that over the course of thirteen short stories showcase Marcus's compassion, imagination, and mordant humor. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun.

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