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Radio Iris
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9780983247173
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: May 15 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.57
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant.
--Deb Olin Unferth, The New York Times Book Review
--O: The Oprah Magazine Kinney is a Southern California Camus.
--Minneapolis Star-Tribune [An] astute evocation of office weirdness and malaise.
--The Wall Street Journal
Radio Iris follows Iris Finch, a twentysomething socially awkward daydreamer and receptionist at Larmax, Inc., a company whose true function she doesn't understand (though she's heard her boss refer to himself as a businessman).
Gradually, her boss' erratic behavior becomes even more erratic, her coworkers begin disappearing, the phone stops ringing, making her role at Larmax moot, and a mysterious man appears to be living in the office suite next door.
Radio Iris is an ambient, eerie dream of a novel, written with remarkable precision and grace that could also serve as an appropriate allegory for our modern recession.
Anne-Marie Kinney's short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Black Clock, Keyhole, and Satellite Fiction.
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