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Seven chilling and provocative stories exploring the dark side of the human psyche, from the prize-winning, acclaimed author of Hallucinating Foucault and Sophie and the Sibyl.
Illuminating the dark side of the erotic, these interwoven stories explore obsession, violence, and the thin line between sex and death. Under a Mediterranean sun a man searches for the Temple of Zeus as his wife awaits her stalker; a sex worker at an illegal fetish club contemplates her options; a strike spirals out of control with eerie consequences; and a conflict with noisy neighbors reaches theatrical heights.
Driven by lust, greed and revenge, chillingly calm or maddened by rage, Patricia Duncker's characters use every tool at their disposal to get what they want. Unapologetically disturbing and provocative like the B movies that inspired them, Seven Tales of Sex and Death holds up a mirror to humanity at its most flawed, ruthless and seductive.
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Patricia Duncker is the author of six novels: Hallucinating Foucault, The Deadly Space Between, James Miranda Barry, Miss Webster and Chérif, The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge, and Sophie and the Sibyl. Her works have been shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and she is the winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award as well as the McKitterick Prize. She is a professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester.
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"Duncker is a mistress of suspense . . . A febrile, fascinating, disquieting read. It asserts itself for what it is: serious stuff, to be read in one gulp and then mulled over for days." ―Maggie O’Farrell
"A wonderfully engaging and rewarding collection, shot through with wit and perversity." ―Michael Arditti, Independent
"Dark, subversive . . . You will be left reeling." ―Observer
"This collection of stories confirms Patricia Duncker as one of Britain’s leading fiction writers . . . She explores areas of our psyches that we all recognise but mostly choose to ignore. She should be required reading." ―Financial Times
"Confident and bewitching . . . Duncker is forging her own brand of fiction, a sort of gender-bending, intellectually exuberant English-French hybrid." ―Joanna Briscoe, Guardian
"Patricia Duncker writes beautifully with a flamboyant immediacy." ―Sunday Telegraph
"Dark and salacious . . . They capture brilliantly the moment in everyday situations where our minds cease to occupy reality and shift into the fantasy projections of our fervently active imaginations." ―The Times
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