Lee, Tom. 2009. Greenfly. London: Harvill Secker. ISBN 1846551943 [Book]

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Claustrophobic, intense, troubled, these twelve astonishing stories hold a flare to the strange, elusive corners of our world, past and present; from the United States of the Gold Rush era to the Berlin of today, from Victorian England to the dusty border towns and high cities of modern South America.

A young couple's passionate affair unravels as they wait anxiously in their hotel room for news of a recklessly conceived drug deal.

An academic inherits a set of diaries detailing her great-grandfather's development of a bizarre new field of science; an endeavour which has shocking implications for his young daughter and unfaithful wife.

And in Greenfly, a housebound woman is driven to distraction by the insects infesting her house - putting strain on an already fractured relationship with her partner.

Lee's stories announce the arrival of a writer whose vision is razor sharp, blackly funny and startlingly original.

Item Type:	Book
Related URLs:	Review
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature > Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought
Date:	9 February 2009
Item ID:	23373
Date Deposited:	25 May 2018 08:54
Last Modified:	25 May 2018 08:54
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/23373

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