{"product_id":"9781907133466","title":"A History of Sarcasm","description":"Sometimes stories that I’ve used to mythologize my childhood resurface in my mind as actual memories … Perhaps if you tell a story enough times, it will become the truth.” This admission by Mark Greensleeves, in 'Some Facts About Me', sums up Frank Burton’s sharp, surreal and subversive short story collection, A History of Sarcasm. The seventeen stories in this collection blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed versions of reality. Among them are a man who insists on living every aspect of his life in alphabetical order, a girl who believes she is receiving secret messages through the TV, a paranoiac who is pursued by an army of giant lobsters, and an academic werecat.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dog Horn Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137330561264,"sku":"9781907133466","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781907133466_p0.jpg?v=1763618721","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781907133466","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}