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An edition of Someday this will be funny (2011)

Someday This Will Be Funny

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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.

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Red Lemonade
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Table of Contents

That’s How Wrong My Love Is
The Unconscious is Also Ridiculous
The Substitute
Chartreuse
A Simple Idea
Give Us Some Dirt
Playing Hurt
More Sex
Dear Ollie
But There’s A Family Resemblance
The Original Impulse
The Shadow of a Doubt
Lunacies
The Way We Are
A Greek Story
The Recipe
Later
Love Sentence
Impressions of an Artist, with Haiku
Madame Realism’s Conscience
Save Me from the Pious and the Vengeful
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Library of Congress
PS3570.I42 S66 2011, PS3570.I42S66 2011

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Open Library
OL24642811M
Internet Archive
Someday_ADE
ISBN 13
9781935869009
LCCN
2010941274
OCLC/WorldCat
676728616

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