The Shingle Bar Sea Monster: and Other Stories

The Shingle Bar Sea Monster: and Other Stories
by Laura Solomon (Author) – December 14, 2016

THE SHINGLE BAR SEA MONSTER AND OTHER STORIES uses surrealism and black humour to explore human predicaments, emotions and aspirations, and to suggest solutions to life's challenges. The situations are extraordinary, the aspirations and emotions are common, and the solutions debatable. A young woman is taken to a sea monster's underwater palace and helps the mermaids preserve seaweed. A girl finds that her right hand can no longer feel. Another girl becomes her younger sister's guardian angel. Two men of different tastes and habits struggle to co-exist after the head of one is grafted to the body of the other. An executive experiences uncontrollable anger after undergoing open-brain surgery. Two sisters continue their childhood rivalry after being reminded of a favourite TV programme. A male scientist is forced to give up the child that he himself gave birth to. On the verge of burnout, a jaded London lawyer heads out to the Mojave desert to set up a new life for herself. Ghosts visit two sisters. A girl hears her dead grandmother speak

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Product Details
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Proverse Hong Kong; 2nd pbk edition (December 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9888228080
ISBN-13: 978-9888228089
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
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Author This Book

LAURA SOLOMON was Winner of the inaugural international Proverse Prize (2009) with her novella, Instant Messages, subsequently published by Proverse Hong Kong in 2010. Also published by Proverse are Hilary and David (an epistolary novel) (2011), The Shingle Bar Sea Monster and Other Stories (2012), the novellas University Days (2014) and Vera Magpie (2015) and Frida Kahlo's Cry and Other Poems (2015). Proverse has also published second editions of An Imitation of Life (novel) (2013) and In Vitro (poetry collection) (2014). Of Solomon, Maggie Gee wrote, when Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, United Kingdom, "Witty, clear-edged, both lemon-sharp and seductive, Laura Solomon is a writer to watch." Solomon has published two novels in New Zealand, Black Light (1996) and Nothing Lasting (1997). Her short story collection Alternative Medicine was published in the UK in 2008. Her plays have been produced at the Wellington (New Zealand) Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK). Among other writing prizes, she has twice won a prize in the Bridport (UK) International Short Story Competition. Her short story, "Sprout", first published in the Bridport Anthology, 2004, and then by Flame Books in the UK, was translated into Czech by Olga Walló and appeared in krásná in the Czech Republic in 2011. Born in New Zealand, Solomon spent nine years in London before returning to New Zealand in 2007. She has a (2:1) honours degree in English Literature (Victoria University, 1997) and a Master's degree in Computer Science (University of London, UK, 2003). She has travelled internationally for her work in IT, including working in Norway, for Fast Search and Transfer, now owned by Microsoft. She has had work accepted in the Edinburgh Review and Wasafiri (UK), Takahe and Landfall (NZ) and judged the Sentinel Quarterly Short Story Competition.