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Droll Tales

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"Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion, and life is painful, paradoxical, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises throughout these interrelated stories, Smyles reveals an off-kilter world overlapping this one. And in giving us a tour of this enchanted, sometimes absurd place, with its own workings and ways of expression, she gives us a new way to understand our own. A young suburban woman runs away to Europe to become a living statue, Mallarmâe is at long last translated into pig Latin, a house full of surrealists compete for love on a reality TV show, a list of fortune cookie messages reveals the inner world of the young man employed to write them, and a story of love and betrayal is told through the sentence diagrams on a fifth grader's grammar test. Romantic, dark, and ironic, Droll Tales is a book like none you have read. It is a joyful interrogation of the paradoxes underpinning life, a cabinet of curiosities, a philosophical vaudeville, a puzzle in fourteen pieces, and a tragicomic riddle articulated in Smyles's singular style, with the mystery of the human heart at its center"--

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781933527611
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 304
  • Udgivet:
  • 5. Juli 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 150x25x226 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 476 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 9. Oktober 2024
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"Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion, and life is painful, paradoxical, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises throughout these interrelated stories, Smyles reveals an off-kilter world overlapping this one. And in giving us a tour of this enchanted, sometimes absurd place, with its own workings and ways of expression, she gives us a new way to understand our own. A young suburban woman runs away to Europe to become a living statue, Mallarmâe is at long last translated into pig Latin, a house full of surrealists compete for love on a reality TV show, a list of fortune cookie messages reveals the inner world of the young man employed to write them, and a story of love and betrayal is told through the sentence diagrams on a fifth grader's grammar test. Romantic, dark, and ironic, Droll Tales is a book like none you have read. It is a joyful interrogation of the paradoxes underpinning life, a cabinet of curiosities, a philosophical vaudeville, a puzzle in fourteen pieces, and a tragicomic riddle articulated in Smyles's singular style, with the mystery of the human heart at its center"--

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