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Modern Times

Cathy Sweeney

There once was ...

a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox.

a man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter.

a couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to be reminded of what love is.

a world where you wake up one day and notice that, one by one, people are turning blue

Startling, wry, beguiling and emotionally charged - the stories in Modern Times might be reminiscent of Lydia Davis, Angela Carter and Daisy Johnson, but they are also unlike anything you've read before.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JUN 23, 2021
  • Imprint : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Page Extent : 160
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781474618496
  • Price : INR 499
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Cathy Sweeney

CATHY SWEENEY is a writer living in Ireland. Her short fiction has been published in the Stinging Fly, the Dublin Review, Egress , Winter Papers , Banshee and the Tangerine, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her debut short story collection, Modern Times, was published in 2020 and her debut novel, Breakdown, in 2024.

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