Someday This Will Be Funny (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935869009)

The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at the reception. Narrators - by turn infamous and nameless - shift within their own skin, struggling to unknot reminiscence from reality while scenes rush into warm focus, then cool, twist, and snap in the breeze of shifting thought. Epistle, quotation, and haiku bounce between lyrical passages of lucid beauty, echoing the scattered, cycling arpeggio of Tillman's preferred subject: the unsettled mind. Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by love's shifting chartreuse. They traffic in the quiet images of personal history, each one a flickering sacrament in danger of being swallowed up by the lust and desperation of their possessor: a fistful of parking tickets shoved in the glove compartment, a little black book hidden from a wife in a safe-deposit box, a planter stuffed with flowers to keep out the cooing mourning doves. They are stories fashioned with candor and animated by fits of wordplay and invention - stories that affirm Tillman's unshakable talent for wedding the patterns and rituals of thought with the blushing immediacy of existence, defying genre and defining experimental short fiction.

Author: Lynne Tillman
ISBN-10: 1935869000
ISBN-13: 9781935869009
Publisher: Red Lemonade
Language: English
Published: 04/22/2011
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.23h x 6.05w x 0.45d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2011 pg. 83
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2011
Booklist 05/01/2011 pg. 68
New York Times Book Review 06/05/2011 pg. 46
New York Times Book Review 06/12/2011 pg. 30
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/07/2011 pg. 26