A Man Made Entirely of Bats, by Patrick Lenton
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A Man Made Entirely of Bats is a collection of short stories and flash fiction by one of Australia's newest voices. Comedic and absurd, these stories are an entertaining exploration of the concept of super heroes and of the super strange in our world.
A Man Made Entirely of Bats, by Patrick Lenton- Amazon Sales Rank: #730498 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Released on: 2014-12-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review Review on BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER: In this collection of short stories and flash fiction, Patrick Lenton careens wildly across genres and draws on elements of surrealism, horror, fairytale, stand-up comedy and pulp fiction to generate tiny worlds that are surprising, original and frequently hilarious... the stories are propulsive and readable, buoyed by a sharp and generous wit. There are echoes of David Sedaris' surreal animal fables Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk. Like Sedaris, Lenton is hugely entertaining, which renders occasional moments of emotional tenderness all the more poignant.- Bookseller + Publisher"Lenton's writing is confident, witty and unashamedly fun, playing with genre tropes and narrative conventions... Like any comedian, some jokes land better than others, but the delight Lenton takes in wordplay and narrative experimentation is infectious, and there are frequent moments that are laugh-outloud hilarious. But there are moments of poignancy and melancholy too, and juxtaposed against the overall playfulness and strangeness of the collection, these moments, when they come, knock the wind out of you."- Readings Monthly.
From the Back Cover 'Featuring a colourful assortment of superheroes, mutants, zombies, bank robbers and boy bands - these stories are wonderfully bizarre, original and hilarious. A new and original voice, Patrick Lenton's short stories bring qualities rare in Australian fiction; inventiveness, humour, and a fine sense of the absurd.' RYAN O'NEILL, The Weight of a Human Heart "The best thing about Patrick Lenton is that he's not writing for you. There's an unselfconscious enjoyment in his characters and scenarios, their bizarreness laced with blackly comic puns and phrasing. Where so much laboured humour is built for a market, Lenton entertains by happy accident." GEOFF LEMON, Going Down Swinging 'I love Patrick's stories because he seems to think a bit differently to everybody else. He strolls down the shoreline picking up seashells and gold coins and gemstones as well as bottle caps, discarded pantyhose, broken dreams and crisp packets and he makes them all play together in his wild sandcastle. Patrick is a bit like a child who knows way too much and also has a degree in poetics. Do not read this on the bus if you have a primal fear of laughing loudly in front of strangers.' ZOE NORTON LODGE (Story Club, ABC TV's The Checkout & The Media Circus) 'Despite - or, perhaps, because of - a recurring preoccupation with the television show Friends, A Man Made Entirely of Bats is a consistent laugh-riot.' SIAN CAMPBELL, Scum Mag
About the Author Patrick Lenton is a playwright, fiction writer and blogger at The Spontaneity Review. He was a Finalist in the 2013 SOYA Awards and shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize 2015. He writes The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge for Going Down Swinging. He edited The Sturgeon General. He works as a Digital Marketer for Momentum Books. He has a collection called 'A Man Made Entirely of Bats' coming out in 2015. He tweets @patricklenton.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Playful, Strange, Darkly Comic and Surprisingly Touching By Pop Bop It seems to me that it is exceptionally hard to write quirky bizarro stories properly. It can't be just wild and crazy characters and it can't be just random slice and dice. Each story has to have an underlying point, or point of view, and all of the moving parts have to fit together and complement each other, even if they initially appear to be unrelated. It can't be labored and it has to be nimble. Sort of like insane haiku. Once it gets heavy or complicated or dense or it requires too much explanation, (or heaven forbid it gets all twee and cutesy), then it collapses under its own weight.All of this is the long and tedious way of getting to the fact that most of Lenton's stories work most of the time. A were-cat throws off a lot of one-liner cat attitude that is at odds with its milquetoast attitude when it's back to being human. Wonder Woman spends time during her heroics to wonder about things. The vigilante crime fighter Man Made Entirely of Bats lives in a cave under the mansion of a billionaire industrialist, who doesn't know he's there. A guy bitten by a radioactive jerk becomes a super-jerk. The heads of all of the major religions play poker, because they are good at bluffing. In each story there is a joke, then jokes about the joke, then surprise twists that turn back on the original joke, and maybe a twist that stands apart from the joke.And between the obvious jokes and the very sly jokes, all of a sudden, there is a poignant or melancholy moment that stands in opposition to the jokes and adds weight and depth, out of seemingly nowhere, to the silliness. What kind of book draws one to describe it as surreal, hilarious, generous, and tender - sometimes within the space of a few sentences?Not to be nationalistically insensitive, but most of my experience, (generally of the happy sort), with Australian writers has been in the fields of Boys Own adventure, people slowly going nuts in the bush, and walking about with baby-eating dingoes. Elegant and playful absurdity is a refreshing surprise, and I'm all for it.Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. This book is funny in all the ways and sometimes strangely sad and ... By Bridget This book is funny in all the ways and sometimes strangely sad and contemplative too. Or funny and contemplative. Or funny and sad. It's a big severed head. It's a lady with clitorises on her fingers. It's a man made entirely of bats.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. this book has a cat in it. buy it now. By Rob Pat Probably one of the weirdest books I ever read. I didn't say that was a bad thing. Check it out. Read it. Might confuse you at first but just go with the flow. Follow his twitter too, @patricklenton.
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