Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

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"Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" is a collection of 13 stories by Sarah Pinsker that explore the past, present, and future through the lens of travel and human nature. The stories feature a diverse range of characters and settings, including generation ships, cruise ships, highways, and more. Pinsker's writing is praised for its originality, generosity, and ability to capture the essence of human experience. The book received positive reviews from critics, with one describing it as "simply wonderful" and another predicting a promising literary career for Pinsker.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2021
Publisher: Head of Zeus

Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, this collection of baker's dozen stories transports readers to the past, the future, and the strange corners of the present. Pinsker weaves a tapestry of music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, and even multiple selves across generation ships, cruise ships, highways, and high seas. The stories feature runaway children, fiddle-playing astronauts, and retired time travelers, among others. Weird, wired, hopeful, haunting, and often beautiful, Pinsker's stories cast a searching light on human nature. However, what the heart desires is not always right or easy.

Praise for Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea:

"Simply wonderful. Each story is generous and original." - Karen Joy Fowler

"An auspicious start to what promises to be one wild ride of a literary career." - Kirkus

"Stories that are as delightful and surprising to pore through as they are introspective and elegiac." - Publishers Weekly

Weight: 216g
Dimension: 129 x 199 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800243941