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Marilyn Krysl - Dinner With Osama - 9780268033187 - V9780268033187
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Dinner With Osama

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Description for Dinner With Osama Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.

Advance Praise for Dinner with Osama

“Marilyn Krysl is one of our most gifted, quirky, and delightful storytellers—unpredictable, funny, and wildly inventive in wondrous ways. Her new collection shows her at the top of her form as she details the ordinary, the absurd, and the apocalyptic in outrageous and deeply affecting ways.” —Jay Neugeboren, author of 1940 and News from the New American Diaspora

“Marilyn Krysl’s astonishing Dinner with Osama somehow finds the intersection between deep anguish at the state of the world and brilliant, caustic, and hilarious sociopolitical satire of America post-9/11. Its effrontery is peculiarly female, its fierce ... Read more

“We may have to invent a new term––‘the political lyric,’ perhaps––to describe the ‘airy speech and inspired story’ in Marilyn Krysl’s brilliant new collection of short fiction, Dinner with Osama. What holds all the fiction together, as much as the impassioned political and cultural concerns that inform them, is the writing, which is lyrical in the best sense, lyrical as in musical, expressive, and vivid.” —Ed Falco, author of Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268033187
SKU
V9780268033187
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About Marilyn Krysl
Marilyn Krysl has published three collections of stories and seven volumes of poetry. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry Prize Stories.

Reviews for Dinner With Osama
"Many of the characters in these eight short fictions from Krysl maintain an awkward, ironic limbo between the desire for political correctness and stultifying class entitlements. . . . Krysl's fiction resists the usual trajectories of plot, concentrating instead on a relentless, sometimes entertaining and illuminating investigation of personal responsibility." —Publishers Weekly “A strong story collection . . . showcasing ... Read more

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