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Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
Ben Loory
Penguin
August 2011
On Sale: July 26, 2011
208 pages
ISBN: 0143119508
EAN: 9780143119500
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Loory's series of forty short stories, with their stripped
and finely-tuned prose, weave seamlessly between the dream
world and reality, between light-hearted anecdotes and
nightmarish fables. In Loory's world, trees walk and talk
while an octopus lives in the next door apartment.
Televisions sing opera, men find invisible crowns, and books
without words are best-selling novels. His tales introduce
the reader to people living among monsters, skydiving moose,
Martians that keep house, and quiet men who write poetry,
all finding themselves in bizarre and sometimes terrifying
situations. Despite the great diversity of these stories,
the characters are tied to each other-and the reader-by the
familiar emotions of fear, desire, and the consequence of
action. Not always as it seems, these strange characters and
places invariably show us ourselves, leaving us to question
the limits of human morality, perception, and truth.
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