Melting Point

Melting Point fuses prose and poetry, realism and literary inventiveness, in dealing with the absurdity of humanity. It's fourteen stylistically diverse stories, flirt with irony, paradox and enigma.

The most striking thing about Magarian's collection is its range of interests, the multiplicity of the worlds evoked, and the extreme contrasts among its characters: a feted, reclusive writer; a seductive murderess with a fondness for Bourbon and fellatio; a thief obsessed with a Toulose Lautrec print; a fruit and vegetable merchant who has a genius toddler; and a deep sea diver who can only be free from clumsiness when she is submerged in water.

Stories and characters flow from these molten moments in a series of fictions that touch on ecstasy, excess and the elemental.



Magarian uses his fiction to pose some of the biggest, most complex questions about life. The themes which excite him are permanent and universal. How does one live with the passage of time, the transience of things? Can our desires ever be satisfied? How can one live a complete, meaningful life? Like all the best writers and thinkers, Magarian knows that you cannot paint an accurate portrait of the world without recognizing its essential, desperate absurdity.



Never more prescient than in our post-fact world--in which reality TV show figures who never read books but watch endless hours of television hold the highest political offices in the land, The Fabrications' satire is spot on...a tour de force of the literary imagination....It's a wondrous novel both cleverly satirical of our spectacle-based society and philosophically profound, a rare accomplishment.



★★★★★ Smart, witty, and honest.



★★★★★ Delightfully absurd



★★★★★ A resplendent tale