Presented as a collection of articles about apocryphal artworks, exhibitions, books and other cultural phenomena, "Sunsets and Dogshits" follows the convention of a "collected writings" book. Most pieces adopt a well-recognized format - for example a catalogue essay for an exhibition, a book review or an item of sports correspondence - but at the same time they incorporate incongruous elements or attempt to see things from inverted perspectives. For example, "The Hudson Variation" is a review of a book about chess hooliganism, while "Whipping Boys" imagines the criminal memoir written from the view point of professional victims, and 'The George Carnegie Award' is a critical review of the writers shortlisted for the best use of a semicolon in the English language. Witty, trenchantly funny, flittingly flirting with genres as diverse as poetry, philosophy, biography, cookery books, volumes on municipal architecture, government investigations into national disasters and technical manuals, "Sunsets and Dogshits" occupies a unique place in modern fiction and is destined to become a classic of its kind.
- ISBN10 1846880459
- ISBN13 9781846880452
- Publish Date 22 October 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 January 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Alma Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English