The Method by Tom Vowler

The Method by Tom Vowler

The characters in this award-winning debut collection are very good at losing things: children, lovers, hope, the plot. They discover the past is not a place easily escaped from, as it pursues them with startling, sometimes horrifying, consequences. A writer takes his research a little too far; a couple, stricken with guilt and grief, prepare a last meal; a group of swingers is rocked by the arrival of a new couple; a man takes a train journey to learn how to kill again; a deformed brother and sister exact revenge half a mile underground; a modern-day messiah astonishes a criminal gang; a witch grows weary of her unemployed husband; a pair of luckless gamblers are convinced they can beat the system; and a father is forever tormented by the few minutes his back was turned. You wouldn't want to be the people in these stories, and yet, as their bizarre and unsettling worlds unfurl, it's impossible not to connect with them, their lives and the things that happen to them remaining with you long after reading. Provocative and bold, these stories will get under your skin.

I admired the sheer style of the writing, as well as the wryness and authority of the narrative voiceI kept reading out of admiration for the prose (particularly the dialogue).

-- Will Atkins * MacMillan New Writing *

Vowler is not afraid to be new, to be dangerous with it and flaunt his talent. Composed beautifully and saturated with insight and compassion.

-- The Short Review

Tom Vowler is an award-winning novelist and short story writer living in the UK. His debut story collection, The Method, won the Scott Prize and the Edge Hill Readers’ Prize, while his novels What Lies Within and That Dark Remembered Day received critical acclaim. He is an associate lecturer in creative writing at Plymouth University, where he completed his PhD. His second collection of stories, Dazzling the Gods, was published in 2018. More at www.tomvowler.co.uk

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ISBN 13	9781844718047
ISBN 10	1844718042
Title	The Method
Author	Tom Vowler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2010-11-01
Number of pages	176
Prizes	Long-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2011 (UK), Long-listed for Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2011 (Ireland)
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