Radio Iris
"Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant."Deb Olin Unferth, The New York Times Book Review"A noirish nod to the monotony of work."O: The Oprah Magazine"Kinney is a...
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"Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant."Deb Olin Unferth, The New York Times Book Review"A noirish nod to the monotony of work."O: The Oprah Magazine"Kinney is a Southern California Camus."Los Angeles Magazine"'The Office' as scripted by Kafka."Minneapolis Star-Tribune"[An] astute evocation of office weirdness and malaise."The Wall Street JournalRadio Iris follows Iris Finch, a twentysomething socially awkward daydreamer and receptionist at Larmax, Inc., a company whose true function she doesn’t understand (though she’s heard her boss refer to himself as a businessman”).Gradually, her boss’ erratic behavior becomes even more erratic, her coworkers begin disappearing, the phone stops ringing, making her role at Larmax moot, and a mysterious man appears to be living in the office suite next door.Radio Iris is an ambient, eerie dream of a novel, written with remarkable precision and grace that could also serve as an appropriate allegory for our modern recession.Anne-Marie Kinney’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Black Clock, Keyhole, and Satellite Fiction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780983247173 (098324717X)
Publish date: May 15th 2012
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English