The Blue Box

ISBN-13: 9781597092753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str.

Ron Carlson

Opis

Ron Carlson is a master of the contemporary short story. In The Blue Box, he extends that mastery to the short short story, offering us a captivating glimpse of a writer at play. With that voice of hissharp, sensitive, and wry, brimming with good humorCarlson inhabits one standby after another of the American pop landscape, past and present: monster flicks, action heroes, unsupervised teenagers, blogging. Coming in for special scrutiny is the world of education, in hilarious send-ups of recommendation letters, teacher evaluations, style guides, and a MOOC. Whimsical, wistful, and gently surreal, The Blue Box delights in life s unending absurdities, and reminds us not to take anythingespecially ourselvestoo seriously.
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