A Sanctuary of Sorts

A Sanctuary of Sorts: & Other Stories is a tragic chronicle of dreamers, lost souls, and the downtrodden. With nine bleak tales set in New Zealand suburbs, countryside, small towns and factories, GW Cook stakes his claim as a writer of edgy literary fiction with this debut collection. His deceptively simple prose portrays a broken world, where the banality of life and the intrusion of The Western Dream is the disease, and the merciless response of nature, is the cure. The tragically failed characters that populate the pages of A Sanctuary of Sorts: & Other Stories are vividly infused with Cook's signature blend of domestic tragedy & farce, dark existential themes, and a bitter sense of irony Writing about the profundity and despair of urban existence, love, relationships, work, despair, life and death, Cook takes an unflinching look into the abyss of modern life. These stories deal with the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, delving into what it is that makes us good or evil and, ultimately, human.