From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents,Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged,visceral tales of wanton sex,broken relationships and futuristic nightmares.
An abusive father haunts his daughter and wife from the confines of a nursing home; a couple with an appetite for S&M discover their escapades have led them into something unimaginably bleak; a desperate addict scours the depths of degradation in a nightmare Dublin; an unborn foetus narrates her torturous experience of the Irish legal system; a paedophile acquires a robotic little boy as part of his sex therapy.
At once hilarious and profoundly moving,Caldwell's stories probe sexuality and disturbing psychology,and the darkess and light that lives within us all.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781788542906Number of pages: 224Dimensions: 195 x 125 mm
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"Paranoia and fantasy mix and merge throughout... Caldwell's linguisic verve keeps you fascinated and appalled. She forever has her eye on language,stalking it everywhere,through the demonic,through street slang and on towards the realms of the sinister sublime." - The Guardian
'A work more attentive to - and understanding of - the terrible derangements of simply being alive I have not read in a long time'- Ian Samson.
'Fiercely inventive'-Irish Times.
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