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    Notes from the Fog: Stories
    Notes from the Fog: Stories
    Notes from the Fog: Stories
    Audiobook9 hours

    Notes from the Fog: Stories

    Written by Ben Marcus

    Narrated by Rebecca Gibel and Charlie Thurston

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    About this audiobook

    With these thirteen transfixing, ingenious stories, Ben Marcus gives us timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world-cosmically and comically apt. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun.

    In "The Grow-Light Blues," a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured testing his employer's newest nutrition supplement-the enhanced glow from his computer monitor. A father finds himself outcast from his family when he starts to suspect that his son's precocity has turned sinister in the chilling "Cold Little Bird." In "Blueprints for St. Louis," two architects in a flailing marriage consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion in mourners at their latest assignment-a memorial to a terrorist attack.

    In the bizarre but instantly recognizable universe of Ben Marcus's fiction, characters encounter both surreal new illnesses and equally surreal new cures. Marcus writes beautifully, hilariously, and obsessively, about sex and death, lust and shame, the indignities of the body, and the full parade of human folly. A heartbreaking collection of stories that showcases the author's compassion, tenderness, and mordant humor-blistering, beautiful work from a modern master.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateSep 19, 2018
    ISBN9781684416318
    Notes from the Fog: Stories

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    • 4/5
      What Marcus describes in these stories feels like the remains leftover after a world-wide collapse. All of the protagonists are emotionally beaten up and have become astute realists in their worldviews. They're haunted by the familiar humans emotions of loneliness, obsession, illness, grief and suffering. But the beauty is in how Marcus takes control of language and forces it to bend to his own singular sense of style in describing their stories.
    • 4/5
      This collection of short stories is electrifying! Futuristic, frightening visions of being human in a depersonalized society are created with a stunning use of language. Marcus's prose wrests any sense of complacency from the very soul of the reader and leaves in its place an awakened, shaken, and rearranged world view. These are not stories to be taken lightly!