Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
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Product details
- ISBN 9780143119500
- Weight: 204g
- Dimensions: 131 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2011
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people - and monsters and trees and jocular octopi - who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, "Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day" draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination.
Ben Loory's stories have appeared in publications as diverse as The New Yorker, ESPN the Magazine, Glimmer Train and World Riot. He lives in Los Angeles.
