Out There: Stories Folk Kate
A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life. "Wondrously perverse, often creepy and hilarious, and always sneakily…
Specifikacia Out There: Stories Folk Kate
A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life. "Wondrously perverse, often creepy and hilarious, and always sneakily heartbreaking."--Chang-Rae LeeWith 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