Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor (Paperback)

In sixteen ferocious short stories French author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy, ridicule, and pain. Compassion lurks somewhere, perhaps, but pity is conspicuous by its absence. Lang's curt, agitated prose disassembles daily life with a swift, unflinching hand and examines it with a sharp, analytic eye. Skinning quotidian moments to bare, raw impulses, confusions, and the agonies underneath, the stories in Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor show the mundane grind of the everyday forces that are fueled by cruel calculation and amoral happenstance and shot through with bizarre surprise. The results are at once coldly comic and powerfully tragic. Interpreting human interactions as a series of precise jabs and desperate flailings, Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor tells truths about the darker sides of our potential and our well-meaning urges dimmed by chance.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	French Voices
Release date:	June 2015
Translators:	Donald Nicholson-Smith
Authors:	Luc Lang
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	116
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-3747-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-8032-3747-2
Barcode:	9780803237476

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