Iris Smyles

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Droll TalesPaperback, 5 July 2022

Droll Tales
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Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Date Published
5 Jul 2022
ISBN-10
1933527617
ISBN-13
9781933527611

Description

In fourteen witty, surreal, and wildly original interrelated stories, Iris Smyles joyfully interrogates the paradoxes of life and language and gives us a new view of our world.

Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion, and life is painful, enigmatic, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises, Smyles gives us a tour of an enchanted, absurd, off-kilter world with its own workings and ways of expression--one that overlaps our own.

A young suburban woman runs away to Europe to become a living statue, Mallarmé is at long last translated into pig Latin, a house full of surrealists compete for love on a reality TV show, a list of fortune cookie messages reveals the inner world of the young man employed to write them, and a story of love and betrayal is told through the sentence diagrams on a fifth grader's grammar test.

Romantic, dark, and ironic, Droll Tales is a book like none you have read. It is a philosophical vaudeville, a cabinet of curiosities, a puzzle in fourteen pieces, and a tragicomic riddle articulated in Smyles's singular style, with the mystery of the human heart at its center.

Product Details

Author:
Iris Smyles
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
5 July 2022
Dimensions:
22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm
Genre:
Feminine
ISBN-10:
1933527617
ISBN-13:
9781933527611
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Weight:
476.27 gm

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