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A Sanctuary of Sorts: & Other Stories is a chronicle of dreamers, lost souls, and the downtrodden. With nine bleak tales set in New Zealand suburbs, countryside, small towns and factories, GW Cook stakes his claim as a writer of edgy literary fiction with this debut collection. His deceptively simple prose portrays a broken world, where the banality of life and the intrusion of The Western Dream is the disease, and the merciless response of nature, is the cure.

The tragically failed characters that populate the pages of A Sanctuary of Sorts: & Other Stories are vividly infused with Cook’s signature blend of domestic tragedy and farce, dark existential themes, and a bitter sense of irony

Writing about the profundity and despair of urban existence, love, relationships, work, despair, life and death, Cook takes an unflinching look into the abyss of modern life. These stories deal with the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, delving into what it is that makes us good or evil and, ultimately, human.

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27 June 2020
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BYB3XLD
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brain Tree Books; 1st edition (27 June 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2318 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 72 pages

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GW Cook is a New Zealand author who grew up in a small working-class town. He writes literary fiction that deals with life in the suburbs and what it means to be human. Cook also writes non-fiction and web-content with a particular interest in self-publishing, art, literature and entrepreneurship.

Visit http://www.gwcookwriter.co.nz for more news and writing.

For a free copy of the Content Creation Optimization Cheat-Sheet (for authors), please visit his website - http://www.selfpublishingsuccessfully.com and subscribe.

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Lee Murray

A measured and thoughtful collection of literary short stories.

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After his extended hiatus from writing, I was delighted to discover A Sanctuary of Sorts: & Other Stories, a fiction collection by GW Cook. I know Cook to be an excellent author-editor of gothic and psychological horror, so this small volume of literary short stories is an interesting departure. To be fair, the nine stories in this collection still throng with darkness, given that almost all of them deal with death and despair, but there is a certain restraint in the execution, a considered maturity in this quick-fire exploration of the mendacity of suburban life. A Sanctuary of Sorts places a lens on our bleak quotidian, on slights that fester, and lives that have lost their former brilliance, startling us with their relevance. (Triggers for suicide).

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