Attrib. and other stories

Though most of the stories take place against a background of failing or failed relationships and often feature death or disease, this is a playful collection of linguistic fancies. Eley Williams either takes normal situations (two boys playing hide and seek or two lovers standing in front of a painting) and gives bravado performances of linguistic gymnastics or she takes weird setups (strangers meeting around a beached whale, an ortolan chef arguing with her boyfriend) and sees where they lead.
Through a playfulness with language, she finds the weird in the everyday and the everyday in the weird.