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Out There: Stories
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ISBN10: 0593231481
ISBN13: 9780593231487
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Dec 6 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593231487
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Dec 6 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, [as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad).
Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.--Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble
Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.--Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble
FINALIST FOR THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk's debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth's remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by blots, preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.
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