Guestbook: Ghost Stories

£22.00

A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at the foot of their former beds, some distraught, some fascinated at the sight of their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling. The spirit of a prisoner has attached himself to you, a friend tells her. He sensed the empathy you had for those men.

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Description

‘Shapton has created a mystical territory – a performance, an exhibition, a guestbook – in which I felt the ghost within myself; the thing that will outlive me. A fearless and exquisite book’ Miranda July

Guestbook explores the glimmering, unsettling things that haunt us in the midst of life, combining stories, vignettes and an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images – found photographs, original paintings, Instagram-style portraits – to transform the traditional ghost story into something else entirely.

‘Leanne Shapton has a way of making books entirely new, surreal, and uncanny … Guestbook contains ghost stories for a world of images and captions, in which the ghosts are all of us, and our strange time’ Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?

Additional information

Weight 0.657 kg
Dimensions 21.7 × 15.2 × 3.1 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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