The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi) Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All...
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From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi) Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374222437 (0374222436)
Publish date: April 4th 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 167
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism,
Short Stories,
Israel,
Short Story Collection,
Surreal
Some really good, imaginative and well-told stories, like moon people who create tangible thoughts with determined shapes. There were also some uninteresting, boring stories, like a dog that keeps coming home. I've been singing "The Cat Came Back" since kindergarten. Turning the cat into a dog and t...
There's no shortage of sex and weirdness in this book, but most of the stories are either funny or thoughtful. Quick reading for when you're waiting in an office or between classes.
This was a really fun book of short, short stories -- some only 3 or 4 pages. Keret is at his best with the short, short form. The longer stories felt too long to me. I thought the most moving was the one about a guy who owns a laundromat. I also enjoyed the one with the girlfriend who secretly turn...
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