Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

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  • Author: Ben Loory
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Published: July 2011
  • ISBN-10: 0143119508
  • ISBN-13: 9780143119500
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011
  • Subject: FICTION-SHORT STORY

Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

By Ben Loory

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This collection of forty (thirty-nine plus one) of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables and tales is populated by people – and monsters and aliens and animals and inanimate objects – motivated by and grappling with the fears and desires that unite all readers alike. In this visionary world, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), octopi leave the sea to collect spoons in small city apartments, and boys and girls and men and women fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. This is stripped-down prose with a wallop of outcomes. Here are stories that will make you see the world in a whole new way – the way you did a long time ago, before you grew up and closed your eyes. 210p.

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The 40 cheerfully ominous stories in this collection feel like collaborations between Tex Avery and Franz Kafka. Each starts with a surreal premise—a man notices a strange hat staring at him, a duck falls in love with a rock, etc.—and sidles along from there. By itself, each sketch is tantalizingly incomplete, but that uneasy wonder is part of Loory's purpose. When these pieces work, as they often do, they invite readers to develop the idea themselves, to use their own imaginations to flesh out characterizations and consequences. Reading several stories in a row might mitigate some of the individual impact, but together they provide a series of glimpses into a world in which all manner of disturbing discoveries and transformations are possible. (Aug.)

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