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Vanilla Bright Like Eminem by Faber, Michel
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- ISBN
- 9780151013142
- Book Title
- Vanilla Bright like Eminem
- Item Length
- 8.2in
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- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 14.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Michel Faber is not only a master storyteller but a daring innovator as well. Here are the pitch-perfect prose, indelible characterizations, and deep empathy for which he has been highly acclaimed. Here also is a satirical streak that depicts individuals at uncanny and all-too-familiar turning points in their lives. The alienated find sanctuary in "The Safehouse," their histories and diagnoses written like endless ads on their T-shirts. In "Andy Comes Back," a man awakens after a five-year coma, only to flee his home. In "The Eyes of the Soul," perpetual televised beauty replaces the derelict view from a suburban picture window. In "Finesse," a dictator holds his surgeon s family hostage to the outcome of a risky operation. These sixteen stories move from unspeakable sadness through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness."
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151013144
ISBN-13
9780151013142
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59035574
Product Key Features
Book Title
Vanilla Bright like Eminem
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pr6056.A27f35 2007
Reviews
Freakish and deeply satisfying. Faber''s elaborately imagined stories often end at a moment of tension or ambivalence, underscoring his characters'' fragility and giving the book an uncanny coherence., In the 16 short stories collected here, Faber (The Crimson and the Petal, 2002) continues to demonstrate the full range of his talents. Most of the stories contain a fantastical or magical element that only serves to underline Faber''s disquieting take on alienation in modern society, and the effect is somewhat like an episode of The Twilight Zone as penned by Ian McEwan...Expertly crafted short fiction., Eccentrics, misfits, sociopaths and outright criminals populate the cosmopolitan (Dutch-born, now Scottish) author's sleek, disturbing, gruesomely funny short stories., PRAISE FOR VANILLA BRIGHT LIKE EMINEM "By turns crepuscular, buoyant, delicate, wry, horrific, and otherworldly, this worldly and organ-rupturingly funny collection is a vitamin boost for the short story." --David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas "Not only can he scare the bejesus out of you, he can make your heart swell" -- The Times (London), The mark of greatness in golf is the ability to play long ballandsink a chip shot. Apply the same measures to writing, and you begin to get a sense of Michel Faber''s talents. Vanilla Bright Like Eminem [is] a set of 16 stylish, harrowing stories that get off to running starts and have concise, cut-to-the-chase precision...Faber ranges widely among the mundane and the fantastic...but regardless of theme, a sense of empathatic understanding pervades all these tales., Eccentrics, misfits, sociopaths and outright criminals populate the cosmopolitan (Dutch-born, now Scottish) author''s sleek, disturbing, gruesomely funny short stories., A cunning, sui generis talent...Mr. Faber''s clinical detachment serves well the deprivations and frustrations of postindustrial near-manhood...[his] style provides the fun-houseunheimlichof an unedited newswire; comas and infanticide evince the same mannered anxiety as train rides and daydreams., The mark of greatness in golf is the ability to play long ball and sink a chip shot. Apply the same measures to writing, and you begin to get a sense of Michel Faber''s talents. Vanilla Bright Like Eminem [is] a set of 16 stylish, harrowing stories that get off to running starts and have concise, cut-to-the-chase precision...Faber ranges widely among the mundane and the fantastic...but regardless of theme, a sense of empathatic understanding pervades all these tales., Eccentrics, misfits, sociopaths and outright criminals populate the cosmopolitan (Dutch-born, now Scottish)author's sleek, disturbing, gruesomely funny short stories., In the 16 short stories collected here, Faber (The Crimson and the Petal, 2002) continues to demonstrate the full range of his talents. Most of the stories contain a fantastical or magical element that only serves to underline Faber''s disquieting take on alienation in modern society, and the effect is somewhat like an episode of The Twilight Zone as penned by Ian McEwan...Expertly crafted short fiction., The mark of greatness in golf is the ability to play long ball and sink a chip shot. Apply the same measures to writing, and you begin to get a sense of Michel Faber's talents. Vanilla Bright Like Eminem [is] a set of 16 stylish, harrowing stories that get off to running starts and have concise, cut-to-the-chase precision...Faber ranges widely among the mundane and the fantastic...but regardless of theme, a sense of empathatic understanding pervades all these tales., A cunning, sui generis talent...Mr. Faber's clinical detachment serves well the deprivations and frustrations of postindustrial near-manhood...[his] style provides the fun-house unheimlich of an unedited newswire; comas and infanticide evince the same mannered anxiety as train rides and daydreams., Eccentrics, misfits, sociopaths and outright criminals populate the cosmopolitan (Dutch-born, now Scottish) author''s sleek, disturbing, gruesomely funny short stories., Freakish and deeply satisfying.Faber's elaborately imagined stories often end at a moment of tension or ambivalence, underscoring his characters' fragilityand giving the book an uncanny coherence., In the 16 short stories collected here, Faber (The Crimson and the Petal, 2002) continues to demonstrate the full range of his talents. Most of the stories contain a fantastical or magical element that only serves to underlineFaber's disquieting take on alienation in modern society, and the effect is somewhat like an episode of The Twilight Zone as penned by Ian McEwan...Expertly crafted short fiction., [Faber] mines the mundane for the unexpected, even the surreal, with impressive assurance. Occasionally, his facility gives an impression of superficiality, but at his best he explores conflicts with a compelling balance of menace and wit., "A cunning, sui generis talent...Mr. Faber''s clinical detachment serves well the deprivations and frustrations of postindustrial near-manhood...[his] style provides the fun-house "unheimlich" of an unedited newswire; comas and infanticide evince the same mannered anxiety as train rides and daydreams.", Poignantly eerie...odd and haunting...When Mr. Faber, who wrote the intoxicating novel 'The Crimson Petal and the White,' shoehorns the name Eminem into the title of a literary short-story collection, he isn't overreaching. These stories blend darkly phantasmagoric elements with humorously commonplace ones, and Eminem makes a perfectly good avatar for that kind of thinking...Every one of the main characters here...¦reaches some point of change by the end of the story. But these are not cheap epiphanies; they are genuinely odd and stirring changes of heart. Mr. Faber, who remains a writer capable of invoking all manner of inchoate dangers, teases...[characters] toward a realization that life-or-death power is beyond both of them., The mark of greatness in golf is the ability to play long ball and sink a chip shot. Apply the same measures to writing, and you begin to get a sense of MichelFaber's talents. Vanilla Bright Like Eminem [is] a set of 16 stylish, harrowing stories that get off to running starts and have concise, cut-to-the-chase precision...Faber ranges widely among the mundane and the fantastic...but regardless of theme, a sense of empathatic understanding pervades all these tales., Poignantly eerie...odd and haunting...When Mr. Faber, who wrote the intoxicating novel ''The Crimson Petal and the White, '' shoehorns the name Eminem into the title of a literary short-story collection, he isn''t overreaching. These stories blend darkly phantasmagoric elements with humorously commonplace ones, and Eminem makes a perfectly good avatar for that kind of thinking...Every one of the main characters here...]reaches some point of change by the end of the story. But these are not cheap epiphanies; they are genuinely odd and stirring changes of heart. Mr. Faber, who remains a writer capable of invoking all manner of inchoate dangers, teases...[characters] toward a realization that life-or-death power is beyond both of them., Poignantly eerie...odd and haunting...When Mr. Faber, who wrote the intoxicating novel ''The Crimson Petal and the White,'' shoehorns the name Eminem into the title of a literary short-story collection, he isn''t overreaching. These stories blend darkly phantasmagoric elements with humorously commonplace ones, and Eminem makes a perfectly good avatar for that kind of thinking...Every one of the main characters here...¦reaches some point of change by the end of the story. But these are not cheap epiphanies; they are genuinely odd and stirring changes of heart. Mr. Faber, who remains a writer capable of invoking all manner of inchoate dangers, teases...[characters] toward a realization that life-or-death power is beyond both of them., In the 16 short stories collected here, Faber (The Crimson and the Petal, 2002) continues to demonstrate the full range of his talents. Most of the stories contain a fantastical or magical element that only serves to underline Faber's disquieting take on alienation in modern society, and the effect is somewhat like an episode of The Twilight Zone as penned by Ian McEwan...Expertly crafted short fiction., Freakish and deeply satisfying. Faber''s elaborately imagined stories often end at a moment of tension or ambivalence, underscoring his characters'' fragility and giving the book an uncanny coherence., PRAISE FORVANILLA BRIGHT LIKE EMINEM "By turns crepuscular, buoyant, delicate, wry, horrific, and otherworldly, this worldly and organ-rupturingly funny collection is a vitamin boost for the short story." --David Mitchell, author ofCloud Atlas "Not only can he scare the bejesus out of you, he can make your heart swell" --The Times(London), Poignantly eerie...odd and haunting...When Mr. Faber, who wrote the intoxicating novel ''The Crimson Petal and the White,'' shoehorns the name Eminem into the title of a literary short-story collection, he isn''t overreaching. These stories blend darkly phantasmagoric elements with humorously commonplace ones, and Eminem makes a perfectly good avatar for that kind of thinking...Every one of the main characters here...¦reaches some point of change by the end of the story. But these are not cheap epiphanies; they are genuinely odd and stirring changes of heart. Mr. Faber, who remains a writer capable of invoking all manner of inchoate dangers, teases...[characters] toward a realization that life-or-death power is beyond both of them., Freakish and deeply satisfying. Faber's elaborately imagined stories often end at a moment of tension or ambivalence, underscoring his characters' fragility and giving the book an uncanny coherence.
Table of Content
Contents The Safehouse 1 Andy Comes Back 27 The Eyes of the Soul 37 Serious Swimmers 49 Explaining Coconuts 61 Finesse 77 Flesh Remains Flesh 97 Less than Perfect 111 A Hole with Two Ends 127 The Smallness of the Action 139 All Black 153 Mouse 171 Someone to Kiss It Better 193 Beyond Pain 209 Tabitha Warren 227 Vanilla Bright like Eminem 239
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2007
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2006-103560
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