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The Great Frustration: Stories

The Great Frustration: Stories

Fried, Seth

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1593764162
ISBN13: 9781593764166
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: May 1 2011
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Fried's stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and wonderfully weird, yet his many strange worlds also have the power to haunt. --Dan Chaon

In Loeka Discovered, a buzz flows throughout a lab when scientists unearth a perfectly preserved prehistoric man who suggests to them the hopefulness of life, but the more they learn, the more the realities of ancient survival invade their buoyant projections. Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre meditates on why an entire town enthusiastically rushes out to the annual picnic that ends, year after year, in a massacre of astonishing creativity and casualty. The title story illuminates the desires and even the violence that surges beneath the tenuous peace among the animals in the Garden of Eden.

Equal parts fable and wry satire, Seth Fried's stories suggest that we are at our most compelling and human when wrestling with the most frustrating aspects of both the world around us and of our very own natures--and show why he has been called one of the most exciting new voices in fiction (Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe).

He's channeling Saunders by way of Barthelme and Kafka, but also clearing a whole new territory of his own . . . Seth Fried is the future of fiction. --Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief

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