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Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever... by Taylor, Justin Paperback / softback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0061881813
- EAN
- 9780061881817
- Date of Publication
- 2010-02-09
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories (P.S.)
- Artist
- Taylor, Justin
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061881813
ISBN-13
9780061881817
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74261233
Product Key Features
Book Title
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever : Stories
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
5.3 in
Item Width
8.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo s description can set the page on fire., Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor's vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing., A young author's nearly perfect collection of short stories....leave[s] you amazed at the power of Taylor's art and his ability to capture the heartbreak and hope for redemption that is the essential undercurrent of life., In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son ., There's something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid . cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope., In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son., Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo's description can set the page on fire., Taylor's characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring., Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque., The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come., Taylor's superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose., A young author s nearly perfect collection of short stories....leave[s] you amazed at the power of Taylor s art and his ability to capture the heartbreak and hope for redemption that is the essential undercurrent of life., There's something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope., The book I keep comparing his collection to is another debut, Philip Roth s Goodbye, Columbus....a fantastic debut collection., I ll be surprised if we don t find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?, “The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.�, Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast., The characters in Justin Taylor's stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness., “In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son .�, The book I keep comparing his collection to is another debut, Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus ....a fantastic debut collection., “The book I keep comparing his collection to is another debut, Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus ....a fantastic debut collection.�, There's something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid ... cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope., In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill s Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson s Jesus Son., "The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come." -- New York Times Book Review "Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque." -- Time Out New York "Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot." -- Los Angeles Times "In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son." -- Oxford American "Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor's vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing." -- Penthouse "Taylor's characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring." -- BookForum "Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast." -- Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood "The characters in Justin Taylor's stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness." -- David Gates, author of Jernigan "Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo's description can set the page on fire." -- Bookslut "These short fictions by Justin Taylor give such a convincing account of the rough crossing of young adulthood that they practically induce seasickness. For his youthful protagonists, identity--emotional, intellectual, sexual--is unstable, constantly in motion." -- Boston Globe "The book I keep comparing his collection to is another debut, Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus....a fantastic debut collection." -- Pank magazine "These stories...shine with tenderness, humor, and genuine insight." -- Brooklyn Rail "A young author's nearly perfect collection of short stories....leave[s] you amazed at the power of Taylor's art and his ability to capture the heartbreak and hope for redemption that is the essential undercurrent of life." -- Blogcritics.org, These short fictions by Justin Taylor give such a convincing account of the rough crossing of young adulthood that they practically induce seasickness. For his youthful protagonists, identity--emotional, intellectual, sexual--is unstable, constantly in motion., I'll be surprised if we don't find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?
Synopsis
Justin Taylor's crystalline, spare, and oddly moving prose cuts to the quick. His characters are guided by misapprehensions that bring them to hilarious but often tragic impasses with reality: a high school boy's desire to win over a crush leads him to experiment with black magic, a fast-food employee preoccupied by Abu Ghraib becomes obsessed with a coworker, a Tetris player attempts to beat his own record while his girlfriend sleeps and the world outside their window blazes to its end. Fearless and astute, funny and tragic, this collection heralds the arrival of a unique literary talent., "This spare, sharp book--Taylor's debut collection--documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human ... the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers--and writers, too--might be seeking out for decades to come." -- New York Times Book Review A collection of prophetic, provocative, and dazzlingly written stories by Justin Taylor, an important new voice in literary fiction and "a new literary beast." (Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood ) Each story in this crystalline, spare, and moving collection cuts to the quick. Taylor's characters are guided by misapprehensions that bring them to hilarious, often tragic impasses with reality. A high school boy's desire to win over a crush leads him to experiment with black magic. An assistant at a hedge fund is torn between the girl he loved in college and the older man whose attention he craves. A fast food employee preoccupied by Abu Ghraib grows obsessed with a co-worker. While his girlfriend sleeps, a Tetris player tries to beat his record, nevermind that out their window blazes the end of the world. Fearless and wild, the stories of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are held together by a thread of wounding humor and candid storytelling that marks Taylor as a distinct and emerging literary talent.
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