The Third Person

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Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781771663694

<i>Two's company, three's a crowd&mdash;and sometimes it’s more than that.<br><br>In <i>The Third Person</i>, a collection of uncanny short stories by Emily Anglin, a sequence of tense professional and personal negotiations between two people is complicated when a third person arrives. Within these triangulated microworlds, disorienting gaps open up between words and reality: employees dissolve from job titles, neighbours overstep comfortable boundaries, voices distanced by space or time make their presence felt. Uneasiness builds among these separate but entangled lives. <br><br>Anglin’s darkly humorous stories contemplate situations in which characters refashion themselves to fit a new competitive milieu. <i>The Third Person</i> reveals how people can become complicit in these milieus, even desire them, often while being led into the loneliness they can instil.