Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Chosen by Ben Marcus as winner of the sixth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction “Alissa Nutting builds a dark catalog of behavior for her characters and the result is a kind of human bestiary, if humans were programmed to go down in flames, to run themselves aground, to seek ruin on every...
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Chosen by Ben Marcus as winner of the sixth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction “Alissa Nutting builds a dark catalog of behavior for her characters and the result is a kind of human bestiary, if humans were programmed to go down in flames, to run themselves aground, to seek ruin on every occasion. These fine stories, anthropologically thorough in their view of the contemporary person, illuminate how people hide behind their pursuits, concealing what matters most to them while striving, and usually failing, to be loved.” —Ben Marcus, author of Notable American Women
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781480426634 (1480426636)
Publish date: June 1st 2013
Publisher: Starcherone Books
Pages no: 188
Edition language: English
Alissa Nutting is a good writer - I gave this book 4 stars after all. I'm not so sure about "innovative" fiction however. There is something about it that makes me feel alienated from what I am reading; makes me conscious of how unhip I am; makes me want to shout "Silence whippersnapper!" in my be...
I tried to think of a catchy title for this post, but that fish kept staring me in the eye, and daring me to come up with something better than the author. So yes, this time, the fish won. I almost want to say that this book defies explanation, but I think the praise I mean there might be misconstru...
I have a feeling that bizarro just isn't my genre. Many of my friends have loved this collection (I read it based on many recommendations from them), but it was just too off-the-wall without enough development or substance in the stories for me to be able to enter into their spirit. I don't think it...
A collection of short stories from the mundane to absurdist, from humor to tragedy to the disturbing. Somehow reminds me of Beckett & Heller. The prose is clean and simple and some good ones managed to be political & intriguing w/o losing subtleties.
12 years ago
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