Deb Olin Unferth - Wait Till You See Me Dance

Details
Paperback - As new

Rating
3.9/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
Deb Olin Unferth's wickedly comic, cutting-edge fiction is revered by many of the best American writers at work today. Wait Till You See Me Dance, her first stand- alone collection of short fiction, consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling "The First Full Thought of Her Life," a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In "Voltaire Night," students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In "Stay Where You Are," two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they assume to be an insurgent-but the gunman has his own problems.
An Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal, in terrifying clarity, the rage, despair, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream.

"Deb Olin Unferth's stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice- each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What an important and exciting talent." - George Saunders
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"This book is an astonishment-strange, brainy, and loaded with feeling. Deb Olin Unferth shows, with brilliant force, the startling vitality of the short story. She is a master." - Ben Marcus