See You in Paradise
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4.0 • 1 calificación
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- $109.00
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- $109.00
Descripción editorial
Bizarre, darkly funny and disconcerting, this collection of stories explores the surreal that lurks in everyday life.
Deftly blending the everyday at its most uncanny with smatterings of sci-fi, these fourteen stories probe moments when family members move apart, or drift back together, when dreams crumble and convictions falter, moments when suddenly things fall into place from a new perspective.
A Japanese Hibachi grill rekindles a wife's passion for her husband and for revenge. A family take weekend trips to other worlds through a magic portal. Dan Larsen, recently drowned, is brought back to life and makes trouble for the group of friends who'd prefer he hadn't. Ellen invites friends, and her ex-husband, to a memorial party for Bounder, a family pet who hasn't died.
Written with Lennon's characteristic deadpan humour these stories catch you off guard and leave you wondering just how much peculiarity the world is capable of absorbing.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Menace runs through many of the 14 stories in novelist Lennon's (Familiar) first collection, tales of quotidian suburban existence into which he often introduces a surreal element. In "Hibachi," the gift of the eponymous grill leads to an odd act of liberation for a frustrated wife. "Total Humiliation in 1987" features an unhappy family on vacation that finds another family's time capsule and thereby casts a pall on their own activities. In the entertaining title story, a young man of "good qualities" successfully romances a CEO's daughter only to find that he has made a deal with the devil. While "The Accursed Items" is a failed attempt at experimental fiction, "Weber's Head" generates dread and humor in equal measure as a man who rents out a room in his apartment gets more than he bargains for when he takes on the proverbial roommate from hell. Three of the best stories, "Zombie Dan," "The Wraith," and "Portal" are postmodern riffs on classic science fiction and horror themes. Although several individual stories score, the collection as a whole strikes the same note of suburban disaffection over and over again to the ultimate point of diminishing returns.
