States of Man: New Stories

Tender nostalgic romantic funny absurd magically real speculative ironic nightmarish entertaining and elegantly rendered...these stories span a century of Mans consciousness. Once a man might be a Gatsby chasing his girl half-way around the world the captain of a football World Cup winning side a raging Picasso bull in a mythical maze refusing to yield lover or art till his last mortality-defiant egotistic gasp. Straightforward enough choices dreams behaviour. Suddenly he is man interrupted underwhelmed overworked ridiculed young rock-solid or unreliable family man father husband friend; his freedom evaporates: hes globe-trotting inbox-fatigued nonsense-hearing corporate military civil-serving quiet ministry of Everyman. Hes so exasperated he might just run away and prop up a bar or contemplate mild treachery just to get by and hes put-upon as he zigzags across #TimesUp political correctness game theory oh... and... the women in his life. Now here he stands staring down the barrel of the 21st Century - hes superman hes transhuman hes disassembling hes nearly done for ...or is he?