cam a22 4500 35731283X CHVBK 20201006160131.0 m | | cr || |||||||| 160211s2015 xx |||||||||| 00 |eng d 978-1-942658-03-0 (RERO)R008363393 DIVIBIB RERO vsbcvb s1an rero Lopez Robert 1971- (RERO)A028539828 cre Good People Robert Lopez [Lieu de publication non identifié] Perseus Book Group 2015 1 e-Book (192 S.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Robert Lopez is the master of deadpan dread, of the elliptical koan, of the sudden turn of language that reveals life to be so wonderfully absurd. Always with Lopez, the voice is all hisenchanting, surprising, at times devastating."JESS WALTER, author of Beautiful Ruins Robert Lopez's strange, incantatory, visionary stories reveal the mysteries behind the ordinary world. You lift your head from this book and it's as if a third eye has been opened."DAN CHAON, author of Await Your Reply and Stay Awake Nothing is funnier than unhappiness," claims Samuel Beckett. To this, we add: nothing is funnier than unhappiness with a heavy dose of amorality, as we learn from Robert Lopez's unforgettableGood People. In these twenty stories, a motley cast of obsessive, self-deluded outsiders narrates their darker moments, which include kidnapping, voyeurism, and psychic masochism. As their struggles give way to the black humor of life's unreason, the bleak merges with the oddly poetic, in a style as lean and resolute as Carver or Hemingway. Treading the fine line between confession and self-justification, the absurd violence of threatened masculinity, and the perverse joy of neurosis, Lopez's stories reveal the compulsive suffering at the precarious core of our universal humanity. Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, and the story collection Asunder. He lives in Brooklyn Auch als Druckausg. vorhanden http://www.onleihe.de/wallis/frontend/mediaInfo,55-0-400729318-100-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html Accès réservé - Netzabhängiger Zugriff BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Metadata rights reserved rero RERO RE11001 RE11001 RE110010018 - - RERO 100 1- Lopez Robert 1971- (RERO)A028539828 cre RERO 856 40 http://www.onleihe.de/wallis/frontend/mediaInfo,55-0-400729318-100-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html Accès réservé - Netzabhängiger Zugriff