{"product_id":"the-underground-cabaret-paperback","title":"The Underground Cabaret - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIan Seed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prose poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Underground Cabaret\u003c\/em\u003e form the final volume of a quartet, following on from \u003cem\u003eNew York Hotel, Identity Papers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMakers of Empty Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In \u003cem\u003eThe Underground Cabaret\u003c\/em\u003e, Ian Seed is at his unsettling and uncanny best. In each of these tightly constructed pieces, Seed gives us people who are helpless in the face of absurdity, who miss each other or form only transient connections and who suffer alienation and loneliness in eerie and surreal encounters which emerge out of the seemingly ordinary and mundane. 'Just when I thought I'd turned everything inside out, ' says one character; just when we think Seed has turned the world upside down as far as it will go, he turns it further, holds it tighter.\" --Andrew McMillan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The real and the uncanny turn on a sixpence in \u003cem\u003eThe Underground Cabaret\u003c\/em\u003e. If Raymond Carver and Jacques Tati had collaborated, it would be here. In bars, offices, bedrooms, cafes, trains, fields, and many other likely and unlikely places, Ian Seed pulls daily reality taut, twists it with expertise and distils it down to its finest surreality, navigating what it means to be human, everywhere, nowhere and at any given moment.\" --Jane Monson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Seed's micro-narratives and oblique parables are at once droll and haunting, as unpredictable as quicksand, and as elegant as the work of those masters of the prose poem, Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy.' --Mark Ford, on\u003cem\u003e New York Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e, in the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47413056831666,"sku":"9781848617230","price":23.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7e0e9dff454ea4d9d46f2f6bbcfdfa4b.webp?v=1778338937","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-underground-cabaret-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}