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by: Lucy Corin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780977698981
ISBN: 097769898X
Label: Tin House Books
Manufacturer: Tin House Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 220
Publication Date: September 28, 2007
Publisher: Tin House Books
Sales Rank: 736587
Studio: Tin House Books
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In this refreshing, funny, and startling collection of stories, Lucy Corin veers far from the path of staid contemporary fiction. She masterfully weaves traditional and experimental topics and techniques, creating a fictional world where people behave normally in the most extreme situations, and in bizarrely with almost no provocation at all. But thanks to her vivid, sharp prose and insightful first-person voices, even the oddest behavior is utterly believable. Unpredictable and playful, these stories transcend their apocalyptic feel to offer a vision that is clear, humane, and completely engaging. The Entire Predicament secures Corin’s reputation as an original, stylistically courageous voice in contemporary avant-garde fiction.
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In no particular order, here are some highlights from the elusive, allusive, hilarious, dead-serious stories in The Entire Predicament:
`Mice' - lyrical ecstasy over the Siberian Tundra
`Incognito' - in which a television reporter takes off her wig
`Some Machines' - PostModern Times inside the machine
`Refrigerator' from `Some Machines' - how to live by the light of a fridge
`Rich People' - a postmodern folk tale about pate, the ... Read More
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