Presented as a collection of articles about
apocryphal artworks, exhibitions, books
and other cultural phenomena,
Sunsets and
Dogshits follows the convention of a “collected
writings” book. Most pieces adopt a wellrecognized
format – for example a catalogue
essay for an exhibition, a book review or an
item of sports correspondence – but at the
same time they incorporate incongruous elements
or attempt to see things from inverted
perspectives. For example, ‘The Hudson
Variation’ is a review of a book about chess
hooliganism, while ‘Whipping Boys’ imagines
the criminal memoir written from the
viewpoint of professional victims, and ‘The
George Carnegie Award’ is a critical review
of the writers shortlisted for the best use of a
semicolon in the English language.
Witty, trenchantly funny, flirting with
genres as diverse as poetry, philosophy, biography,
volumes on municipal architecture
and technical manuals,
Sunsets and Dogshits
is destined to become a classic of its kind.
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"Sean Ashton has a real gift for one-liners." -
The Guardian
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Now available as an e-book (ISBN 9781846882173) from
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