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Revision as of 15:30, 10 December 2020
Dip Flash is a collection of short stories by Jonathan Pinnock. It is his second collection and was published by Cultured Llama in April 2018.
Blurb
In Dip Flash we are taken to worlds where houses disappear, a wife runs off with a porpoise, and on to Heaven, where only French is spoken. From a bull in a china shop to a scheme for releasing the equity in grannies, these stories are dark and raw, grotesque and fantastic. They are also laugh-out-loud funny.
Critical Reception
Joanne Harris said that it was
really quite a remarkable collection – compact, witty, incisive and surreal. Loved it!
and David Gaffney said
Endlessly inventive and astonishingly original these sharply executed slivers of wit and fun are well-crafted yet have at the same time a rawness that makes you feel that they could have sprung out from Pinnock’s mind in one single unedited bound.
However, despite these kind remarks, Dip Flash failed to any impression whatsoever on the book-buying public.
Relevance to the Mathematical Mysteries
Dip Flash contains the story Financial Engineering, which explores the potential for making money out of the sale of grandmothers, in much the same way that Rufus Fairbanks describes to Tom in The Truth About Archie and Pye.
Trivia
The phrase 'Dot Dash / Dip Flash' appears in the song 'Dot Dash' by Wire.
