Radio Iris (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780983247173)

"Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant."
--Deb Olin Unferth, The New York Times Book Review

"A noirish nod to the monotony of work."
--O: The Oprah Magazine

"Kinney is a Southern California Camus."
--Los Angeles Magazine

"'The Office' as scripted by Kafka."
--Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"[An] astute evocation of office weirdness and malaise."
--The Wall Street Journal

Radio Iris follows Iris Finch, a twentysomething socially awkward daydreamer and receptionist at Larmax, Inc., a company whose true function she doesn't understand (though she's heard her boss refer to himself as "a businessman").

Gradually, her boss' erratic behavior becomes even more erratic, her coworkers begin disappearing, the phone stops ringing, making her role at Larmax moot, and a mysterious man appears to be living in the office suite next door.

Radio Iris is an ambient, eerie dream of a novel, written with remarkable precision and grace that could also serve as an appropriate allegory for our modern recession.

Anne-Marie Kinney's short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Black Clock, Keyhole, and Satellite Fiction.

Author: Anne-Marie Kinney
ISBN-10: 098324717X
ISBN-13: 9780983247173
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2012
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 05/25/2012
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2012
New York Times Book Review 07/15/2012 pg. 22
New York Times Book Review 07/22/2012 pg. 26