6.6 /10 1 Votes
Language English Publication date 2006 Pages Approx. 130 pp Originally published 2006 Country United Kingdom | 3.3/5 Goodreads Publisher Tonto Press Media type Print Paperback ISBN 0-9552183-2-2 OCLC 173078759 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Short story, Flash fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dial M For Monkey is a collection of 20 short stories and flash fiction by Adam Maxwell first published in 2006.
Maxwell's writing has been described in the press as a ‘Chandler-esque hard-boiled cocktail, stirred with equal parts humour, mystery, gut-wrenching realism, and trademark minimalism’, ‘weird, wonderful, twisted and witty’ and even ‘almost Fawlty Towers’. Some of these stories are of a traditional Short Story length but most are Flash fiction weighing in well under 1000-words.
The twenty stories collected some of Maxwell's previously published work across the print and electronic mediums whilst also including selection of stories written specifically for this collection. Notably 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' - a flash fiction in which the main character tests this premise by placing a gun in the microwave - was originally featured in Dave Eggers' McSweeneys.