![]() ![]() At the same time, the narrative grounds itself in its protagonist’s search for his missing mother through this absurd world, which keeps the book from sliding into abstraction. The novel sets its sights on contemporary American society and finds an abundance of targets, from the corporatization of agriculture to the dehumanization of the poor to the flattening of political discourse. ![]() ![]() Tremblay’s new novel, Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye (ChiZine, 2012) is a dystopian satire set in the City/Pier world that he began developing in some of his earlier short fiction. An accomplished editor, Tremblay collaborated with Sean Wallace for 2009’s Phantom (Prime) and with John Langan for 2011’s Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (Prime). His published books include the short story collection In the Mean Time (ChiZine, 2010) and the novels The Little Sleep (Holt, 2009), The Harlequin and the Train (Necropolitan, 2009), and No Sleep Till Wonderland (Holt, 2010). His short fiction has appeared in such publications as Weird Tales, Interzone, ChiZine, Clarkesworld, and Best American Fantasy 3, and his short story “There’s No Light Between Floors” was a 2008 Bram Stoker Award nominee. ![]() Paul Tremblay is an American writer of contemporary horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. ![]()
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