Synopsis
Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland’s brightest stars of the screen, both at home and abroad. Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Academy, Sheehan has received widespread critical acclaim for his acting talent.
In his debut collection of short stories, he disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.
Surreal, intelligent, dark and provocative, the collection presents a multitude of observations that will stay with the reader long after the book is finished.
Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, and explores the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.
'A whacked-out, kaleidoscopic miasma of delightful abandon and fun' Patrick McCabe
In his debut collection of short stories, he disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.
Surreal, intelligent, dark and provocative, the collection presents a multitude of observations that will stay with the reader long after the book is finished.
Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, and explores the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.
'A whacked-out, kaleidoscopic miasma of delightful abandon and fun' Patrick McCabe
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2021 Editions Gill Books
272 pages
ISBN : 9780717189700
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Un très bon ouvrage de nouvelles ! Il est clair que si vous aimez l'humour sombre et décalé ce livre est pour vous. Je suis passée par différentes réactions pour chaque nouvel, surprise à chaque fois par cette plume audacieuse qui réfléchit aux comportements humains en s'enfonçant dans les méandres de personnages en apparence normal. En trois mots : Impulsions, réflexions et originalité !