{"product_id":"richard-mallinsons-fast-fiction-richard-mallinson-9781481781299","title":"Richard Mallinson's Fast Fiction: Volume Two","description":"At only a page each in length, Richard Mallinson's elegantly structured short stories are a pithy fast fiction for a modern multimedia age. A rapid succession of carefully worked observations, the stories read like a dynamic anthology of life's collisions and interactions, its projected plans and unexpected rotations. There is a great joy in the subverted (the interviewer becomes the interviewee; the private detective becomes the conspirator) as well as an interest in the open-ended. Possibility abounds, for these are always tales of the present; the past is unclear and the future unwritten. Adhering to the strict one-page format, the writing is marvelously precise: it is highly disciplined, but infinitely rich, conjuring the most unique and sharply observed characters with remarkably few words. If indeed \"we read fiction . . . in order to meet individuals\" as the character Tolson declares in Mallinson's \"Tolson's Creed,\" then in this anthology we are introduced to a plethora of distinct personalities, rendered all the more compelling by their relentless unpredictability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Mallinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1481781294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781481781299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authorhouse UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d","brand":"Richard Mallinson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48485332615423,"sku":"9781481781299","price":45.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_56009338-1bfb-4dfc-95ec-36992f2c5a63.jpg?v=1778049176","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/richard-mallinsons-fast-fiction-richard-mallinson-9781481781299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}