Someday This Will Be Funny

Lynne Tillman

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Red Lemonade
26 April 2011

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at the reception. Narrators

by turn infamous and nameless

shift within their own skin, struggling to unknot reminiscence from reality while scenes rush into warm focus, then cool, twist, and snap in the breeze of shifting thought. Epistle, quotation, and haiku bounce between lyrical passages of lucid beauty, echoing the scattered, cycling arpeggio of Tillman's preferred subject: the unsettled mind. Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by love's shifting chartreuse. They traffic in the quiet images of personal history, each one a flickering sacrament in danger of being swallowed up by the lust and desperation of their possessor: a fistful of parking tickets shoved in the glove compartment, a little black book hidden from a wife in a safe-deposit box, a planter stuffed with flowers to keep out the cooing mourning doves. They are stories fashioned with candor and animated by fits of wordplay and invention

stories that affirm Tillman's unshakable talent for wedding the patterns and rituals of thought with the blushing immediacy of existence, defying genre and defining experimental short fiction.

By: Lynne Tillman
Imprint: Red Lemonade
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9781935869009
ISBN 10: 1935869000
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 26 April 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Someday This Will Be Funny

Tillman's gorgeous and potent latest finds the innovative author embracing diverse, imaginative forms in these often brief but always intriguing tales -Publishers Weekly Starred Review Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic...Tillman is simply a terrific prose stylist whose work should have wide appeal- New York Times Book Review Clever intricate fictions that map both the complication and comedy of the moments that most writers miss- Times Literary Supplement

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