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    Disappearing Act: A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories

    By Robert Sheehan

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    About this ebook

    In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.

    Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.

    Dark and provocative, the collection will stay with the reader long after the book is finished.

    Warning: Contains Adult Content

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateOct 22, 2021
    ISBN9780717189717
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    Disappearing Act: A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories
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    Robert Sheehan

    Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland’s most successful acting exports. Although best known in Ireland for his starring role in RTÉ’s now-iconic crime series Love/Hate, his global profile has skyrocketed due to the extraordinary success of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy. Disappearing Act is his literary debut.

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