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| ISBN: | 0977199290 (ISBN13: 9780977199297) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://awfulpossibilities.com/ |
Christian TeBordo
Paperback | Pages: 176 pages Rating: 3.52 | 122 Users | 27 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Awful Possibilities |
| Author | : | Christian TeBordo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | April 13th 2010 by Featherproof Books |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Anthologies. Literary Fiction |
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In brilliantly strange stories that explode the boundaries of short fiction, Christian TeBordo locates the awe in the awful possibilities we could have never imagined. A girl masters the art of forgetting among kidney thieves. A motivational speaker skins his best friend to impress his wife. A man outlines the rules and regulations for sadistic childrearing. You’ve heard these people whispering in hallways, mumbling in diners, shouting in the apartment next door. In nine brilliantly strange set pieces that explode the boundaries of short fiction, The Awful Possibilities will twist you in nine awe-inspiring directions.Rating Of Books The Awful Possibilities
Ratings: 3.52 From 122 Users | 27 ReviewsWeigh Up Of Books The Awful Possibilities
Truly awful possibilities, these are. Every one of these stories is a challenging read, if only because people act and are acted upon awfully. It was hard to find the deeper message, though - even though I read this because of the George Saunders blurb, it had none of his biting satire, just his misery. I liked the book a lot, it just made me feel icky and sent me to look for a hug.This book is an interesting mix of reflective insight about the human condition and refreshingly imaginative total bizarreness. Though it can get a tad confusing at times, the writing is nicely free and fluid. I especially like the odd little postcards that separate and bookend the stories, completely strange little notes from a man on vacation to his wife who is on vacation with him and will receive the postcards upon their return home.
Stories are hit or miss, but dang do I love his writing style
Really this book was just okay. A loosly tied series of shorts torn from the headlines so to speak. In actuallity, it was torn from the buried pages of the news, but news still the same. Fiction written about the possibly why's or what were they thinkings. Mildly entertaining.
Couldn't finish it. Don't want to return to it.
Righteous author dude is one of the few writers I've become friendly with in Philly. Two things I know about him informed my reading of his first collection of stories: He drinks faster than I do and he smokes before he swims. He also taught me a new word in the first story: "tupacalypse." The inclusion of tender postcards sent to his wife nicely complicates the rougher gist of the stories, which often seemed sort of language-y to me (I mean: I was aware of the author's attention to the
Tight tales of high weirdness. I liked these better than his last novel, We Go Liquid.
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