Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day - Paperback

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Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day - Paperback

Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day - Paperback

by Ben Loory
$24.00
$24.00

Book Overview

by Ben Loory (Author)

"This guy can write " --Ray Bradbury

Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people-and monsters and trees and jocular octopi-who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination.

Contains 40 stories, including "The Duck," "The Man and the Moose," and "Death and the Fruits of the Tree," as heard on NPR's This American Life, "The Book," as heard on Selected Shorts, and "The TV," as published in The New Yorker.

Author Biography

Ben Loory's fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, READ Magazine, and Fairy Tale Review, and been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts. He is also the author of Tales of Falling and Flying and a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. A graduate of Harvard University and the American Film Institute MFA program in screenwriting, Loory lives in Los Angeles, where he is an Instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.59 x 7.72 x 5.14 IN
Publication Date: July 26, 2011
ISBN9780143119500
Author Ben Loory
PublisherPenguin Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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