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  • 304 sidor
  • 2022
In fourteen witty, surreal, and wildly original interrelated stories, Iris Smyles joyfully interrogates the paradoxes of life and language and gives us a new view of our world. Welcome to the world ofDroll Tales,in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion, and life is painful, enigmatic, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises, Smyles gives us a tour of an enchanted, absurd, off-kilter world with its own workings and ways of expression-one that overlaps our own. A young suburban woman runs away to Europe to become a living statue, Mallarméis at long last translated into pig Latin, a house full of surrealists compete for love on a reality TV show, a list of fortune cookie messages reveals the inner world of the young man employed to write them, and a story of love and betrayal is told through the sentence diagrams on a fifth grader's grammar test. Romantic, dark, and ironic,Droll Talesis a book like none you have read. It is a philosophical vaudeville, a cabinet of curiosities, a puzzle in fourteen pieces, and a tragicomic riddle articulated in Smyles's singular style, with the mystery of the human heart at its center.
  • Författare: Iris Smyles
  • Format: Trade paperback
  • ISBN: 9781933527611
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-07-21
  • Förlag: Turtle Point Press