Nobodies
- Publisher
- Now or Never Publishing Co.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2016
- Category
- Crime
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988098227
- Publish Date
- Oct 2016
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988098326
- Publish Date
- Oct 2016
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
What does it mean to be a nobody? How does it feel to be a somebody? And why is it so hard to be ourselves? These are the questions at the heart of Nobodies, a darkly comedic collection in which a neurotic teenager experiences his first rejection; a stalker emails her favourite movie star; a young man wages war against God; and an aspiring philosopher tries to save the world from itself. In seventeen genre-bending stories, Nobodies explores the paradoxes of status anxiety, the pitfalls of fame, and the dialectics of identity in the twenty-first century.
About the author
Chris Gilmore has published poetry, essays, and reviews in several periodicals and magazines, and one of his screenplays won Third Place in the 2014 Amsterdam Film Festival's Screenwriting Competition, while another was shortlisted as an Official Finalist in the 2014 Beverly Hills Screenwriting Competition. He lives and works in Toronto.