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Kissssss: A Miscellany
Steve Katz
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Description for Kissssss: A Miscellany
Paperback. A collection of short stories that employ a variety of forms - genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games - while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
This is a profound and delightful book of short stories. This collection - derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility - contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth. At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of forms - genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games - while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fiction Collective 2
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573661393
SKU
V9781573661393
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Ref
99-15
About Steve Katz
A novelist, poet, and filmmaker, Steve Katz is the author of Saw, Antonello's Lion, Swanny's Ways, Moving Parts, and Creamy & Delicious, among other books. He has taught creative writing and literature at Cornell University, Brooklyn College, Queens College, The University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, The University of Notre Dame, and The University of Colorado in Boulder, from which he retired in 2003. A native of Manhattan, he lives in Denver, Colorado.
Reviews for Kissssss: A Miscellany
Steve Katz comes off the loping forward rush of his latest masterful novel, Antonello's Lion, with a collection of short pieces: acerbic, innovative, humorous, and above all, perversely engaging. - Rudy Wurlitzer ""Steve Katz's comic genius is subversive. Readers beware. You may die laughing."" - Walter Abish ""Steve Katz is an American treasure: a delirious imagination in a major stylist. His 2006 novel Antonello's Lion, is an epic comic lament. Reading these stories you can imagine Flann O'Brien crossed with Nathanael West. No one has chronicled the impact of the women's movement more vividly and with less bias. No one has performed more loving surgery on the international art scene."" - Wendy Walker ""In my opinion, Steve Katz is the greatest living novelist in English, and the one most likely to keep our hearts and minds in good working order, to keep us truly human in a world where brainless tech-loving Moorlocks hog the sunshine, and thoughtful, life-loving Eloi have been driven underground."" - William Bamberger