Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at the reception. Narrators by turn infamous and nameless shift within their own skin, struggling to unknot reminiscence from reality while scenes rush into warm focus, then cool, twist, and snap in the breeze of shifting thought. Epistle, quotation, and haiku bounce between lyrical passages of lucid beauty, echoing the scattered, cycling arpeggio of Tillman’s preferred subject: the unsettled mind. Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by love’s shifting chartreuse. They traffic in the quiet images of personal history, each one a flickering sacrament in danger of being swallowed up by the lust and desperation of their possessor: a fistful of parking tickets shoved in the glove compartment, a little black book hidden from a wife in a safe-deposit box, a planter stuffed with flowers to keep out the cooing mourning doves. They are stories fashioned with candor and animated by fits of wordplay and invention stories that affirm Tillman’s unshakable talent for wedding the patterns and rituals of thought with the blushing immediacy of existence, defying genre and defining experimental short fiction.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1 |
aaaa
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Classifications
ID Numbers
Source records
Internet Archive item recordmarc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
Better World Books record
Library of Congress MARC record
amazon.com record
Promise Item
marc_columbia MARC record
harvard_bibliographic_metadata record
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created May 5, 2011
- 14 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
July 5, 2024 | Edited by Phillip Duncan | //covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14642555-S.jpg |
January 5, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
December 23, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
December 4, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
May 5, 2011 | Created by Peter Brantley | Added new book. |