Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.23 (561 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143119508 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.Contains 40 stories, including "The Duck," "The Man and the Moose," and "Death and the Fruits of the Tree," as heard on NPR's This American Life, "The Book," as heard on Selected Shorts, and "The TV," as published in The New Yorker. In this 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. 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 motivated by the same fears and desires that isolate and unite us all. "This guy can write!" -Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451
"The 40 cheerfully ominous stories in this collection feel like collaborations between Tex Avery and Franz Kafka." -Publishers Weekly"Strange, gorgeous fables - the reader isn't sure if she has dreamed them or read them." -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Review of Books"These stories are full of wit, humor, and heart, at times koan-like in their deceptive simplicity and focus." -Michael Patrick Brady, Boston Globe"lonely, haunting, and dreamlike" -Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Magazine"Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day might be the best collection of wonder and amazement I have ever read." -Michael Jones, Blogcritics"loopy yet lovely" -Elle Magazine"immensely entertaining" -The AV Club"One of a kind: a thoroughly entertaining antidote to rigid thinking and excessive seriousness." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
pure distillate of story Raymond Chandler once said that a "good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled." When I first came to read Ben Loory's stories five years ago, I began to see just what Chandler meant. For me, these stories were, and are, a revelation: in some ways so modern, their brevity suited to our contemporary attention span, so easily consumed sitting on the subway, while wondering how a particular tale might end (I never could guess what would happen next), and yet so familiar: so like the fables, and myths, the sagas, and the dreams and the twilight zones that I have loved, that they feel they must have existed before Ben. K. Dunn said Short stories that stay with you LONG after you read them. Here's the thing about the stories in Ben Loory's collection Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, each one will make you feel something different. One of them made me cry with its sad beauty. Another scared the bejeezus out of me with its quiet terror. Another made this desert rat of a girl long for the ocean. And still another made me laugh out loud with delight. Some of them torture you with their brevitywait, you say, that's it? But I want to know more! But Mr. Loory doesn't tell you more. And it's ok really. Only giving you that bit that he's giving you and making that bit so very powerful is what keeps his sto. "This book will pet your hair while you sleep" according to Aaron Dietz. Ben Loory's Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day is a book of fairy tales for adults. Kind of. The tales have this sort of secret ingredient in them that makes you feel incredibly wise when you read the book. Like, while you're reading it, you might think, "Of course I don't know why that man did that thing in this story, but I feel like I'm almost smart enough to figure it out even though it's an unsolvable puzzle. Take that, person-who-got-better-grades-than-me-in-elementary-school!"When Ben Loory read a piece from the book in Denver, my girlfriend and I both cried. When Ben Loory sent me the manuscript for a blur