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And Other Stories
Faber & Faber
June 2011
On Sale: May 24, 2011
174 pages
ISBN: 0865478538
EAN: 9780865478534
Hardcover
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Breakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent
lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the
world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker’s
taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall
from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual
cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for
and fear of the unknown. Daniel Orozco leads the
reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of
bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps,
and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of
late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional
data entry, and an exiled dictator’s occasional piss on the
U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in
the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new
employee’s first-day office tour includes descriptions of
other workers’ most private thoughts and actions; during an
earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of
California shakes free for examination.
Orientation introduces a writer at the height
of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the
landscape of American fiction.
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