In the opening story, ‘What Have You Done?,’ Paul returns to his family home after a lengthy absence. It is split into six sections with the more conventional stories separated from the more experimental until, it might be argued, both forms coincide in the final story, ‘The Moors’.Īlmost all Marcus’ characters suffer from an isolation that is evidenced in broken or troubled relationships. With three novels behind him, most recently The Flame Alphabet (in which children’s language becomes toxic to adults), Leaving the Sea is his first substantial collection of short stories, the oldest of which was published as long ago as 2000. OL25692298W Page_number_confidence 91.78 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.16 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211112010142 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 387 Scandate 20211108031247 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781847086365 Tts_version 4.Like Donald Antrim, Ben Marcus is an American writer of experimental fiction published in the UK by Granta. First love - Fear the morning - Origins of the family - Against attachment - Leaving the seaĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:06:56 Boxid IA40282121 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Watching mysteries with my mother - The loyalty protocol - 4.

On not growing up - My views on the darkness - 3. What have you done? - I can say many nice things - The dark arts - Rollingwood - 2. Dark, funny and utterly unique, Leaving the Sea showcases a writer at the height of his powersġ.

Ben Marcus has created a labyrinth populated by disturbed, weary men from the frustrated creative writing teacher to the advocate of self-inhumation from Paul, whose return home leads him further into his isolation, or Mather, whose child is sick, to an unnamed narrator who spends his lonely evenings calculating the probabilities of his mother's imminent demise. The stories in Leaving the Sea take place in a world which is a distortion of our own, where strange illnesses strike at random and where people disappear without a trace. A bold new short story collection from one of the most exhilarating and innovative writers of our time.

Leaving the sea by ben marcus