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Leaving the Sea: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ben Marcus is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Leaving the Sea: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) about?
From one of the most innovative and vital writers of his generation, an extraordinary collection of stories that showcases his giftsand his rangeas never before. In the hilarious, lacerating I Can Say Many Nice Things, a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian Rollingwood, a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In Watching Mysteries with My Mother, a son meditates on his mothers mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrators marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide. As the collection progresses, we move from more traditional narratives into the experimental work that has made Ben Marcus a groundbreaking master of the short form. In these otherworldly landscapes, characters resort to extreme survival strategies to navigate the terrors of adulthood, one opting to live in a lightless cave and another methodically setting out to recover total childhood innocence; an automaton discovers l
Who reads Leaving the Sea: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ben Marcus
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307379382
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.36 / 5 (758 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14