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Author

Alexander Weinstein

Alexander Weinstein is the Director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collection Children of the New World (Picador 2016). His fiction and translations have appeared in Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Notre-Dame Review, Pleiades, PRISM International, World Literature Today, and other journals. He is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and his fiction has been awarded the Lamar York, Gail Crump, Hamlin Garland, and New Millennium Prize. His stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and appear in the anthologies 2013 New Stories from the Midwest, and the 2014 & 2015 Lascaux Prize Stories. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and a freelance editor, and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe.

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Title:

Children of the New World (MP3)

Written by:

Alexander Weinstein 

Read by:

David Baker 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

6 hours  

MP3 size:

262 MB 

Published:

May 28 2017 

Available Date:

May 28 2017 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489392060 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Short Stories & Anthologies 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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'Inspired by the author's anxiety over our increasingly virtual lives, these 13 stories artfully slam an unchecked obsession with technology and affirm the beauty of reality's texture.'
The New York Times Book Review

Thirteen short stories to stun, thrill and terrify in equal measure.

A creator of virtual memories struggles to distinguish real-life experience from manufactured events. A childless couple conceive two children in an online world, only for their imagined life to be infected by a computer virus. The robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child ‘dies’, and a family realises how real a son he had become. Alexander Weinstein’s debut story collection, Children of the New World, imagines a near future of social-media implants and instant connection, environmental collapse and post-revolution discord. It grapples with our unease in the modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.

‘Scary, recognizable, heartbreaking, witty, and absolutely human … This is mind-bending stuff. Weinstein’s collection is full of spot-on prose, wicked humor, and heart.’
Publisher's Weekly

‘Each of the stories feels utterly possible, and the worlds are deftly rendered – whether they show us the effects of climate change or new types of sex made possible by advanced technology.’
Kirkus Reviews