Bed: Stories
College students, recent graduates, and their parents work at Denny’s, volunteer at a public library in suburban Florida, attend satanic ska/punk concerts, eat Chinese food with the homeless of New York City, and go to the same Japanese restaurant in Manhattan three times in two sleepless days,...
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College students, recent graduates, and their parents work at Denny’s, volunteer at a public library in suburban Florida, attend satanic ska/punk concerts, eat Chinese food with the homeless of New York City, and go to the same Japanese restaurant in Manhattan three times in two sleepless days, all while yearning constantly for love, a better kind of love, or something better than love, things which—much like the Loch Ness Monster—they know probably do not exist, but are rumored to exist and therefore “good enough.”
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781933633268 (1933633263)
ASIN: 1933633263
Publish date: May 15th 2007
Publisher: Melville House
Pages no: 278
Edition language: English
To use Tao Lin's own words:"fluttering and doomed as a hummingbird with a spinal disease". I just couldn't get into it. For me, none of the characters were memorable, or likable (not that likable is always important). Still, there was this feeling of selfishness and longing, that left me with a cold...
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