In I Could Ride All Day In My Cool Blue Train stories of contemporary heartbreak and fallout rub shoulders with dystopian fables, and the whole is given coherence by the returning leitmotif of the unsettling dream narrative. From a divorced mother reflecting on the life slipping away from her in Florida, to a young zoologistworking at the business end of zebras; from a group of carwashers based on a south London supermarket forecourt, to Pythagoras explaining just what exactly his problems with triangles was, Peter Hobbs' first collection recalls such writers as diverse as Ballard, Foster Wallace and Toby Litt, and reveals a writer of staggering range and compassion.

Author Biography

Peter Hobbs grew up in Cornwall and Yorkshire, and lives in London. The Short Day Dying was his first novel.