The Ends of Our Tethers 13 Sorry Stories
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Fans of the work of Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and T. Coraghessan Boyle will revel in Alasdair Gray's masterful, witty collection. Gray's stories defy genre, and his angular, playful style, prodigious wit, and razor-sharp intellect are matched by his remarkable skill with the short-story form. In "Job's Skin Game," the narrator humbly tells his life story like the evenings news. During a moment of awkward revelation, he shares the strangely exquisite pleasure he receives from scratching at the skin condition he's developed since losing his two sons in the Twin Towers tragedy and a small fortune in the dot-com meltdown. In "Big Pockets with Button Flaps," a wily old man teases and taunts a pair of punk teenage girls as their confrontation takes on social implication through lightning-fast transfers of power and wit. The Ends of Our Tethers is vintage Grayaccessible, experimental, mischievous, wide ranging, beautifully written, and wise.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781841956268 |
Publisher: | Canongate U.S. |
Imprint: | Canongate |
Pub date: | 13 Jan 2005 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 192 |
Weight: | 168g |
Height: | 185mm |
Width: | 120mm |
Spine width: | 13mm |