Friday, June 30, 2006

The Last Days of Johnny North by David Swann

‘Publishing at the edges of reality and fantasy,’ says the Elastic Press website; and, indeed, Andrew Hook has shown a healthy disregard for genre boundaries, happily publishing mimetic fiction alongside fantastic tales, usually in the same volume. The Last Days of Johnny North stretches (pun intended) this ethos in a somewhat different direction: only two of the pieces could be considered fantasy (and even those can be rationalized); but what David Swann does is to make the mundane seem strange, even hallucinatory...

Continue reading at Laura Hird's New Review.

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