Full name: The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

Author: Etgar Keret Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374222437 0374222436

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. Similar books: The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God by Etgar Keret Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff All Around Atlantis by Deborah Eisenberg Never Trust A Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt Barking Man by Madison Smartt Bell Tumble Home by Amy Hempel Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night by Thisbe Nissen Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau