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Hardly Children

Laura Adamczyk

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Familiar worlds skewed by unsettling, eerie undercurrents.

If you’re in the mood for a read that tilts the everyday slightly askew, "Hardly Children" might just be the book to disturb your comfort zone. Laura Adamczyk crafts a collection where each story unfurls with a sense of uncanny dread, creating a space where the mundane becomes tinged with a surreal, almost haunting atmosphere. It's that blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary that nudges you to look at the world with a more wary, yet fascinated eye.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780374167899
Author: Laura Adamczyk
Publisher: FSG Adult
Date of Publication: 2018-11-20
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Horror
Goodreads rating: 3.44
(rated by 165 readers)

Description

Named a Fall Pick by Boston Globe, ELLE, Library Journal and MyDomainAn eerie debut collection featuring missing parents, unrequited love, and other uncomfortable momentsA man hangs from the ceiling of an art gallery. A woman spells out messages to her sister using her own hair. Children deemed "bad" are stolen from their homes. In Hardly Children, Laura Adamczyk's rich and eccentric debut collection, familiar worlds--bars, hotel rooms, cities that could very well be our own--hum with uncanny dread.The characters in Hardly Children are keyed up, on the verge, full of desire. They're lost, they're in love with someone they shouldn't be, they're denying uncomfortable truths using sex or humor. They are children waking up to the threats of adulthood, and adults living with childlike abandon.With command, caution, and subtle terror, Adamczyk shapes a world where death and the possibility of loss always emerge. Yet the shape of this loss is never fully revealed. Instead, it looms in the periphery of these stories, like an uncomfortable scene viewed out of the corner of one's eye.
 

Familiar worlds skewed by unsettling, eerie undercurrents.

If you’re in the mood for a read that tilts the everyday slightly askew, "Hardly Children" might just be the book to disturb your comfort zone. Laura Adamczyk crafts a collection where each story unfurls with a sense of uncanny dread, creating a space where the mundane becomes tinged with a surreal, almost haunting atmosphere. It's that blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary that nudges you to look at the world with a more wary, yet fascinated eye.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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