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Vanilla Bright Like Eminem
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Michel Faber
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Satire,
- Psychological Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Satirical short stories about people at bizarre life crossroads
- Darkly inventive premises like T-shirt diagnoses and hostage surgeons
- Emotional swings from bleakness to brief, piercing joy
Michel Faber is not only a master storyteller but a daring innovator as well. Here are the pitch-perfect prose, indelible characterizations, and deep empathy for which he has been highly acclaimed. Here also is a satirical streak that depicts individuals at uncanny and all-too-familiar turning points in their lives.
The alienated find sanctuary in “The Safehouse,” their histories and diagnoses written like endless ads on their T-shirts. In “Andy Comes Back,” a man awakens after a five-year coma, only to flee his home. In “The Eyes of the Soul,” perpetual televised beauty replaces the derelict view from a suburban picture window. In “Finesse,” a dictator holds his surgeon's family hostage to the outcome of a risky operation.
These sixteen stories move from unspeakable sadness through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness.
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