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Dial 'M' For Monkey (book)
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Dial M For Monkey is a collection of 20 short stories and flash fiction by Adam Maxwell
first published in 2006.
Maxwell's writing has been described in the press as a ‘Chandler-esque hard-boiled cocktail, stirred with equal parts humour, mystery, gut-wrenching realism, and trademark minimalism’, ‘weird, wonderful, twisted and witty’ and even ‘almost Fawlty Towers’. Some of these stories are of a traditional Short Story
length but most are Flash fiction
weighing in well under 1000-words.
The twenty stories collected some of Maxwell's previously published work across the print and electronic mediums whilst also including selection of stories written specifically for this collection. Notably 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' - a flash fiction in which the main character tests this premise by placing a gun in the microwave - was originally featured in Dave Eggers' McSweeneys.
Adam Maxwell
Adam Maxwell is an English writer. He has a degree in English Studies and a Masters degree in Creative Writing.-Writing Style:...
first published in 2006.
Maxwell's writing has been described in the press as a ‘Chandler-esque hard-boiled cocktail, stirred with equal parts humour, mystery, gut-wrenching realism, and trademark minimalism’, ‘weird, wonderful, twisted and witty’ and even ‘almost Fawlty Towers’. Some of these stories are of a traditional Short Story
Short Story
Short Story is a piece for violin and piano composed by George Gershwin in 1927.Gershwin composed the duet from two other short works that premiered at the same time as his Three Preludes. He combined a section of the "Novelette in Fourths" and another slower work to create this piece....
length but most are Flash fiction
Flash fiction
Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...
weighing in well under 1000-words.
The twenty stories collected some of Maxwell's previously published work across the print and electronic mediums whilst also including selection of stories written specifically for this collection. Notably 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' - a flash fiction in which the main character tests this premise by placing a gun in the microwave - was originally featured in Dave Eggers' McSweeneys.
The stories
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun
- Shooting Jelly With A Shotgun
- Jim Morrison's Leg
- I Almost Spanked A Monkey
- The Holy Face of Gary Barlow
- The Beginning
- Sherry For Breakfast
- Sprouts
- Rudolph Redux
- Special K and the Yorkshire Terrier
- A Stroll Along the Prom, Prom, Prom
- Sandwiches
- Self Assembly
- Is That To Go?
- It Happens
- To Let: Ground Floor Flat
- The Dangers of eBay
- The Things We Said Today
- Noise Abatement
- The Cock Ain't Gonna Like That