In recent years every magazine worth its salt has featured a David Rose short story. Although bewilderingly various and multiphonic, they were always unmistakably him. -- Bill Broady, author of Swimmer
Acknowledgements Afterword Dedication A Nice Bucket Private View Flora The Fall The Fifth Beatle Viyborg - A Novel Clean Rectilinear In Evening Soft Light Shuffle Lector Tragos Zimmerman Home The Castle
David Rose was born in 1949, living outside West London, between Windsor and Richmond. He spent his working life in the Post Office. His debut story was published in The Literary Review, and since then, has been widely published in small presses in the U.K. and Canada. He is joint owner and Fiction Editor of Main Street Journal.
English author David Rose has an underground reputation for sly invention and the stories here wrong-foot you from the title onwards - Rose is alive and well in his sixties. He calls his foreword Afterword and subtitles one story A Novel. There's a tale assembled from lines out of Kafka and another that takes the form of a Borges-like commentary on a fictitious novel, with excerpts. The prevailing mood is semi-Dystopian, with the standout piece describing an eco-activist who graduates from prankish PR stunts to more lethal action. Edgy, erudite, full of multilingual puns and allusions to art and classical music, this is the work of a writer following his own instincts rather than those of a marketing team. You can see why he's loved but also why he's not better known. -- Anthony Cummins Metro David Rose is one of the more hidden treasures of the British short story. Posthumous Stories - a title as misdirectional as the contents themselves - collects 25 years of his work, euphorically paranoid, slyly narrated, often hilarious, always quietly undermining both the narrating voice and any comfortably receptive position the reader might take up. -- M. John Harrison The Guardian
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