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Reality
- Author
- John Lanchester
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 9 March 2021
- Run Time
- 4 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very foundations of human relations; and the merry contestants in a reality TV show may actually be . . . somewhere very hellish indeed. Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.
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Details
- Author
- John Lanchester
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 4 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9781705279427
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Horror and supernatural fiction, Short stories, Technothriller, Occult fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Thriller / suspense fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction
Synopsis
Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very foundations of human relations; and the merry contestants in a reality TV show may actually be . . . somewhere very hellish indeed. Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.
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