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Disappearing Act

A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories

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Disappearing Act

By: Robert Sheehan
Narrated by: Robert Sheehan
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Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland’s brightest stars of the screen, both at home and abroad. Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Academy, Sheehan has received widespread critical acclaim for his acting talent

In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.

Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.

Dark, provocative and often humorous, the collection will stay with the listener long after the audiobook is finished.

©2022 Robert Sheehan (P)2022 W F Howes
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Psychological Short Stories Fiction Witty
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“A whacked-out kaleidoscopic miasma of delightful abandon and fun.... Leaves the reader amused, exhilarated and really quite delighted…you’ve seen Sheehan act—now watch him dazzle.” (Patrick McCabe)

“A dazzlingly eclectic collection of short stories.” (Ben Elton)

“Lots of great stories and voices. Reminded me of Irvine Welsh’s short stories.” (Frankie Boyle)

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Unique, intriguing, and exquisitely developed stories and characters. Absolutely brilliant author regales us in each and every short story. Beautifully narrated by the author. Only downside is that he leaves me wanting more.

Brilliant

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This is such a work of art. It truly is a unique book and worth the read. I love his writing style and how he conveys his stories! It’s beautifully done!!

Beautifully done

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I’ll be honest, I rarely knew what the hell was happening in these stories. Most often it was a “what the f is happening here” with only the last bit of the story making me go “ohhhhh, okay.” Other stories ended and I still had no clue what I’d just heard. And yet, if Robert Sheehan were to read a dictionary I’d sign on to listen. He does a great job with inflection and intonation and creating a character with his lovely voice that basically just drips pure sex even when talking about the LEAST sexy things.

His beautiful caramel voice….

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Robert Sheehan is so talented with his writing and storytelling his voice brings the characters to life I love all of his accents and the way he yelled the stories I can’t wait for more

BRILLIANT STORIES!

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book of short stories. Hearing Rob tell the stories really brought them to life for me. I’m looking forward to his next book as well!

Loved these stories

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Beautiful stories on life and death brought to life with haunting voices and brilliant accents.

wonderful

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I loved this book of short stories! The narrator and author were amazing!! I will be relistening very soon!!!

Fantastic on all levels!!!!

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Beautifully read. Heartrending and strange in the best way. I hope Mr. Sheehan writes more!

How Disappearing Act was meant to be enjoyed!

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This book! Each story seemed to evoke the artwork and storytelling of Noel Fielding for me. Extremely odd and beautiful and funny and bold. I loved that Sheehan really gave himself permission to tell such eclectic stories. Each story, another layer of odd and interesting and strange.
I haven’t enjoyed a book like this in ages and it even inspired me to start drawing again. Too many great characters to not be visually represented.

All I needed was visual artwork to match

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Overall I did enjoy this collection of short stories and if you have read these I'm not sure what that says about me. This collection is not for the faint of heart, most of these stories are vulgar in multiple ways, where that be sexual or the circumstances of the story, it can be triggering to people that aren't prepared. The narration of Robert Sheehan is amazing and my favorite part. he really brings life to these stories and makes all the characters feel different from each other. If you would like to be scandalized and shocked by a collection of stories then this is the one for you.

Striking and Outlandish

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