The Half-Life of Songs by David Gaffney
Succinct in length and vast in imagination, Gaffneys micro stories are bizarre and witty slices of condensed reality. Frequently hilarious and often poignant, they leave an after taste that is resonant, dark and clingy. They sometimes seem to glow from the inside with their own awful secrets.About Sawn Off Tales
Witty, clever, poignant, Gaffney's micro fictions work as funny routines, moving insights and illuminating character sketches
-- Time OutAbout Sawn off Tales:
Utterly brilliant. Hilariously demented and wonderfully succinct. David Gaffney’s Sawn-Off Tales are little McNuggets of pure gold.
-- Graham RawleAbout Sawn Off Tales:
Sad, funny fables recalling evanescent moments of connection and happiness. One hundred and fifty words by Gaffney are more worthwhile than novels by a good many others.
-- Nicholas Clee * The Guardian *Gaffney has produced the kind of book that makes you wish you spent more time locked in your imagination and less time dismissing irreverent thoughts. I wish Gaffney was allowed 15 minutes of time with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to make his vision come to life.
-- Lianne Steinbery * The Big Issue *About Aromabingo:
A triumph of the blurring of literary boundaries with a dose of unabashed comic bravura and honouring British writing with the awkward, self-conscious, yet jagged aplomb it so deservedly needs.
* The Short Review *About Aromabingo:
Offbeat, unsettling and yet frequently hilarious, Aromabingo is a solid step on from the accomplished Sawn Off Tales and proof that David Gaffney is one of those names to watch.
* Bookmunch *About Never Never:
Gaffney’s strength is creating strong characters, and this debut brims with them. With a ruthless eye and pitch-black humour, Gaffney explores a consumer culture in which exploiting the welfare system is both a necessity and an addiction, and in which hypocrisy is endemic
* The Observer *Loaded with potent charges, insidious and cumulative in their effects. In Gaffney’s fiction thoughts take physical form, and the material world has a surreal vitality … The stories are sometimes haunting, and sometimes comic. The Half-life is an appropriate metaphor for the lingering effect they have on the reader.
-- Nicholas Clee * Times Literary Supplement *| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844717750 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844717755 |
| Title | The Half-Life of Songs |
| Author | David Gaffney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2011 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |