Cover art for Formaldehyde
Published
Seizure, August 2015
ISBN
9781921134609
Format
Softcover, 210 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.8cm

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Winner of the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize

Lives are turned upside down by a bureaucratic error in this Kafkaesque work of neo-absurdism.

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