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States of Man : New Stories

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Tender, nostalgic, romantic, funny, absurd, magically real, speculative, ironic, nightmarish, entertaining and elegantly renderedā€¦these stories span a century of Manā€™s consciousness.

Once, a man might be a Gatsby chasing his girl half-way around the world, the captain of a football World Cup winning side, a raging Picasso bull in a mythical maze refusing to yield lover or art till his last mortality-defiant egotistic gasp. Straightforward enough choices, dreams, behaviour.

Suddenly he is man interrupted, underwhelmed, overworked, ridiculed, young, rock-solid or unreliable family man, father, husband, friend; his freedom evaporates: heā€™s globe-trotting inbox-fatigued nonsense-hearing corporate, military civil-serving quiet ministry of Everyman. Heā€™s so exasperated he might just run away and prop up a bar, or contemplate mild treachery just to get by, and heā€™s put-upon, as he zigzags across #TimesUp, political correctness, game theory, ohā€¦ andā€¦ the women in his life.

Now here he stands staring down the barrel of the 21st Century ā€“ heā€™s superman, heā€™s transhuman, heā€™s disassembling, heā€™s nearly done for

ā€¦or is he?


Narrator: Barney Goodall
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