Author: Ben Loory Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Science fiction, Horror
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ISBNs: 9780143119500 0143119508 |
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Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people-and monsters and trees and jocular octopi-who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination.
Contains 40 stories, including "The Duck," "The Man and the Moose," and "Death and the Fruits of the Tree," as heard on NPR's This American Life, "The Book," as heard on Selected Shorts, and "The TV," as found in The New Yorker.
A selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and the Starbucks Coffee Bookish Reading Club.
Winner of the 2011 Nobbie Award for Best Book of the Year.
"This guy can write!" -Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451
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