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rank 3176
word count 10107
date submitted 05.07.2011
date updated 06.07.2011
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller...
classification: adult
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NEW WORLD ORDER

Zachary Woolfe

Twisted short stories of contemporary life in London. Like fragments of broken glass from today's stained glass nightmare.

 

Twisted short stories of contemporary life in London. Ranging from the apocalypse to thwarted love, from the unknown sphere to the broken dream. Trapped husbands, damaged wives, lonely serial killers and suicidal children all merge together to make up the New World Order for the jaded generation. Adult, extreme fiction at its gripping best.

Zacahary Woolfe is at the forefront of British Nu-wave Fiction. Dennis Cooper meets Bret Easton Ellis meets Howard Jacobson. Barbaric beauty and haunting imagery, but all set in England's green and pleasant land. The venting of the working class spleen clash with the trials and tribulations of bourgeois misanthropy to create the New World Order; where there is a new moral code and things are not what they seem.

Reviews for previous work 'Afterbirth', published by Methuen:

‘Brilliant and absorbing piece.' – Evening Standard.

‘Raw and unflinching…comically surreal as well as horribly distressing.’ – Metro.

‘[Showing] a deep understanding of the human condition…Afterbirth is extraordinarily powerful...by a new writer with an extraordinarily strong and original voice.’ – The Stage.

 
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katie78 wrote 305 days ago

this is witty and polished. i especially liked his perspective on crying women. i could have used more of this. the dialogue crossed the line from eccentric to unbelievable when jenny threatens divorce. i think the scene might be more effective if you stay on the line. it keeps the characters funny and sympathetic instead of extreme and unlikeable... just my opinion.
thanks for the read.

billysunday wrote 320 days ago

Great pitch. Like how you write in 3rd person, but then shift to a narrator position like an aside in a play..."Now reader, ..." Great topic, one that I'm obsessed with.
Dina of Last Degree and Halo of the Damned

billysunday wrote 320 days ago

Great pitch. Like how you write in 3rd person, but then shift to a narrator position like an aside in a play..."Now reader, ..." Great topic, one that I'm obsessed with.
Dina of Last Degree and Halo of the Damned

Nigel Fields wrote 323 days ago

WLd. Both pitches do the job well.

AlleJo wrote 323 days ago

Sharp, tight, immediate, blackly humorous.

I found this a fresh, fast, gripping read.

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