- Paperback: 245 pages
- Publisher: Tachyon Publications (October 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1892391821
- ISBN-13: 978-1892391827
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.1 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #561,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This collection of 19 later short pieces by author and poet Disch . . . lovingly tears into the realities and fantasies of American life. . . . These tales show Disch at his masterful, acerbic best." —Publishers Weekly
"Diversely gifted . . . entirely original . . . joyously versatile . . . a unique talent." —Newsweek
"One of the most remarkably talented writers around." —The Washington Post Book World
"A worthy volume from a writer who we really needed to be alive today, skewering hypocrisy and sometimes unearthing the sunny side of suffering." —The Los Angeles Times
"When it comes to Thomas Disch, label makers scratch their heads. . . . This literary chameleon redefined science fiction with novels that have been compared to the best from Orwell to Huxley, wrote bestselling children's books about talking kitchen appliances, earned censure from the Catholic Church for an off-Broadway play, published light verse, twisted the pulp conventions of gothic fiction, experimented with interactive software, and demolished the American poetry establishment, UFO cults, and other sacred cows in brilliant critical essays." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Darkly satirical stories that evoke laughs as they twist in the knife." —Roanoke Times
"These stories are usually humorous, thoughtful and in no way pessimistic. They are as good as any you will find this year, whether published as 'science fiction' or 'literature.'" —Guardian (UK)
"Novelist, poet, and critic, he has become a most significant literary presence." —American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Surreal and satiric, this collection of short fiction pays a mesmerizing visit to the shadowy zone that lies between present everyday life and a perilous near future that is frighteningly tangible. In "The Wall of America," the Department of Homeland Security has put up a border wall between the U.S. and Canada, but the NEA has plans to turn it into the world’s largest art gallery. After the Rapture, working-class life for "A Family of the Post-Apocalypse" is not as different as one might imagine, despite the occasional plague of biker-gang locusts. Between addiction and art is "Ringtime," where a criminal is trapped in a recursive compulsion to visit other people's memories while he is forced to record his own for an eager audience. A Somali schoolgirl living in post-WWIII Minneapolis goes on a bloody crusade to rid her town of a familiar predator, one who might just be a monster, in "White Man." Vivid, starkly imagined, and strikingly articulate, this disquieting compilation is a journey that skillfully straddles the line between absurdity and irony.
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