TALES FROM THE MALL - Ewan Morrison
"One of the most innovative and groundbreaking books published in the last couple of decades” – IRVINE WELSH
“This feels like a really important step toward a fiction of the 21st century.” – THE GUARDIAN
Fashion. Food Courts. Lingerie. Fire Bombing. Suicide. Free Parking. Welcome to the Mall. Why would one woman threaten to kill another for a pair of discounted shoes? Why are cross-dressers drawn to mall car parks? What do impulse buys have to do with rioting? And why are market research companies hiding the truth from us? From one of the UK s most acclaimed literary and media talents, TALES FROM THE MALL is a mash-up of fiction, essays and true stories, that tells the rise of the most iconic symbol of our modern age: the shopping mall.
From over a hundred interviews and confessions, Morrison re-tells the true-life tales of those who work, shop and even find love inside their walls. With wry wit, insight and lyrical compassion, Morrison uncovers the secrets of retail heaven and hell, to reveal how malls manipulate our emotions in cleverly calculated ways, how they are an ideal space to meet a new lover or to kill yourself and how they are taking over the world. A startling window on our time, to make you think, fear and laugh. Retail will never be therapy again.
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