Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Book Details
Author(s)Zsuzsi Gartner
PublisherPintail
ISBN / ASIN0670066923
ISBN-139780670066926
AvailabilityUsually ships in 6 to 11 days
Sales Rank1,097,320
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2012: Shortlisted for Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize, Gartner’s wide-ranging and unrestrained collection--the short story “at its savage best,†as the Giller jury reported--manages a neat trick: It makes the ordinary seem absurd and the extraordinary seem everyday normal. People and events are turned upside down and inside out, whether it’s the movie industry, art, terrorism, or manhood. If there’s a theme running through these 10 witty, graceful, funny, and sometimes surreal stories, it’s a big fat poke at convention. Like an avant garde post-bebop jazz musician, Gartner seems to relish the unconventional, and her style of storytelling veers from ridiculous to eloquent to heartbreaking and back. --Neal Thompson
