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Someday This Will Be Funny (Paperback)
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Someday This Will Be Funny (Paperback)
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The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment
in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the
characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of
American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas,
Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at the reception. Narrators
-- by turn infamous and nameless -- shift within their own skin,
struggling to unknot reminiscence from reality while scenes rush
into warm focus, then cool, twist, and snap in the breeze of
shifting thought. Epistle, quotation, and haiku bounce between
lyrical passages of lucid beauty, echoing the scattered, cycling
arpeggio of Tillman's preferred subject: the unsettled mind.
Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made
and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by
love's shifting chartreuse. They traffic in the quiet images of
personal history, each one a flickering sacrament in danger of
being swallowed up by the lust and desperation of their possessor:
a fistful of parking tickets shoved in the glove compartment, a
little black book hidden from a wife in a safe-deposit box, a
planter stuffed with flowers to keep out the cooing mourning doves.
They are stories fashioned with candor and animated by fits of
wordplay and invention -- stories that affirm Tillman's unshakable
talent for wedding the patterns and rituals of thought with the
blushing immediacy of existence, defying genre and defining
experimental short fiction.
General
Imprint: |
Red Lemonade
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2011 |
First published: |
April 2011 |
Authors: |
Lynne Tillman
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Dimensions: |
209 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-935869-00-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-935869-00-0 |
Barcode: |
9781935869009 |
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