A bold new short story collection from one of the most exhilarating and innovative writers of our time. The stories in Leaving the Sea take place in a world which is a distortion of our own, where strange illnesses strike at random and where people disappear without a trace. Ben Marcus has created a labyrinth populated by disturbed, weary men; from the frustrated creative writing teacher to the advocate of self-inhumation; from Paul, whose return home leads him further into his isolation, or Mather, whose child is sick, to an unnamed narrator who spends his lonely evenings calculating the probabilities of his mother's imminent demise. Dark, funny and utterly unique, Leaving the Sea showcases a writer at the height of his powers.

Ben Marcus's highly anticipated new short story collection - his first since his extraordinary debut The Age of Wire and String

About the Author
BEN MARCUS is the author of The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper's and the Paris Review. Marcus has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is on the faculty at Columbia University in New York.

Awards
Short-listed for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2014 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9781847086365
Author Ben Marcus
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 204g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm