True False
Author | : Miles Klee |
Publisher | : OR Books |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2015-09-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781939293992 |
ISBN-13 | : 1939293995 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Klee’s last book, his first, was variously hailed as “sharply intelligent” (Publishers Weekly) and “harsh, spastic” (Justin Taylor): we like to think of True False as intelligently spastic, or sharply harsh—disquieting and funny. A collection of stories that range from the very short to the merely short, these forty-four tales evoke extraordinary scenes in an understated manner that’s marked Klee one of today’s most intriguing writers. From the apocalyptic to the utopic, from a haunted office building to a suburban pool that may be alive, a day in the mind of a demi-god Pythagoras to a secret race to develop artificial love, True False captures a fractured reality more real than our own.