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A collection of seventeen stories that blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed versions of reality. Sometimes stories that I've used to mythologize my childhood resurface in my mind as actual memories - Perhaps if you tell a story enough times, it will become the truth. 'This admission by Mark Greensleeves, the compulsive liar in the story, Some Facts About Me , sums up Frank Burton's sharp, surreal and subversive short story collection, A History of Sarcasm . The seventeen stories in this collection blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed versions of reality. Among them are a man who insists on living every aspect of his life in alphabetical order, a girl who believes she is receiving secret messages through the TV, a paranoiac who is pursued by an army of giant lobsters, and an academic who turns into a cat. Funny, dark and relentlessly off the wall, this collection brings together the best of Frank Burton's published work with some brand new stories.
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