Ashton The Way to Work

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-78463-293-9
Verlag: Salt
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 0, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Salt Modern Fiction

Have you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you'd never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what he assumes to be his usual 8:08 service, he soon discovers that all is not as it first seemed. Does this train stop at any station? Do the carriages ever come to an end? And where is the colleague he thought he saw, as he took his place in the quiet coach? Our narrator reflects on his job as salesman for a cat litter manufacturer as he wanders down-train in search of answers - yet the sliding doors that close behind him appear to be malfunctioning, and every person he meets seems to remember very little of their past. Seduction, destiny and salvation all come into play as this relentless novel unfolds, and we discover precisely where the 8:08 is heading and just who is in charge.

Sean Ashton writes fiction, art criticism and poetry. From 2007-11, he was associate editor of MAP Magazine, and from 2012-17 wrote for Art Review. His 2007 book Sunsets (Alma Books) is a collection of reviews of imaginary artworks and books. His novel Living in a Land (Ma Bibliothèque 2017) is a fictional memoir written in sentences constructed in the negative. His book Sampler (Valley Press, 2020) is a selection of pieces from an imaginary encyclopaedia written entirely by poets. A vinyl LP of excerpts from Living in a Land has been issued with the journal Inscription (Information as Material, 2020). He has also contributed poems, essays and stories to many other publications, including Oxford Poetry, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland, the philosophy journal Collapse and the book Walking Cities. In 2017 he was awarded second prize in the International Awards for Art Criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashton, Sean