M.A.C. Farrant

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2002
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • Altered Statements

    With its deadpan humour and wry sensibilities, Altered Statements is a collection of inventive short fictions that turn the real world on its head. Farrant is an anthropologist of the absurd, cataloguing the habits and traditions of modern society...

  • Darwin Alone in the Universe

    These new, off-side stories continue M.A.C. Farrant’s exploration of the relation of fiction to the evolving corporate construction of reality in the media and information age. Objective reality (what’s out there) in our culture has become a perf...

  • The Breakdown So Far

    The Jonathan Swift of the bingo hall and elder-care, the Alexander Pope of pet-care and the dinner parties of the liberal intelligentsia, Marion Farrant continues her assault on the unaccountably disaffected and disillusioned of the Western world wit...

  • Down the Road to Eternity: New and Selected Fiction

    Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction is a collection of M.A.C. Farrant’s work dating from 1985 to 2009. Compiled of selected fiction from Sick Pigeon (1991), Raw Material (1993), Altered Statements (1995), Word of Mouth (1996), What’...

  • The Strange Truth about Us: A Novel of Absence

    This tell-all book by M.A.C. Farrant, whom Publishers Weekly has celebrated as "a brave iconoclast” and whose work the Globe & Mail has said "bristles with moral fury ... at the absurdities of our accelerated age and a great dose of laugh-out-lo...

  • The Strange Truth About Us

    “Anthropologist of the absurd” and “brave iconoclast,” M.A.C. Farrant positively bristles in this three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, snippets, questions, speculations, and meditations, by turns philosophical, dark, comedic, and ...

  • Down the Road to Eternity

    Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction is a collection of M.A.C. Farrant’s work dating from 1985 to 2009. Compiled of selected fiction from Sick Pigeon (1991), Raw Material (1993), Altered Statements (1995), Word of Mouth (1996), Wha...

  • The World Afloat: Miniatures

    City of Victoria Butler Book Prize: M.A.C. Farrant, The World Afloat (Winner)In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five “miniatures” that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C. Fa...

  • The Days: Forecasts, Warnings, Advice

    It’s hard to worry about the future when you’re laughing at the hilarious absurdity of daily life. The days we live go by like slugs eating their way through leaves; everything changes, yet nothing changes, and the years soon accumulate. Who does...



  • The Great Happiness

    A delightful collection of seventy miniature fictions and comics riffing on the theme of happiness, The Great Happiness offers a series of lively antidotes to the current climate of doom. Some of the book’s miniatures are narratives with a twist, o...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

M.A.C. Farrant has published 10 books.

M.A.C. Farrant does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Great Happiness, was published in March 2019.

The first book by M.A.C. Farrant, Altered Statements, was published in July 2002.

No. M.A.C. Farrant does not write books in series.
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