Notes from the Fog: Stories

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Маркус Бен

Язык: английский

Год: 2018

Издатель: Alfred A. Knopf

ISBN: 978-1-101-94746-3

Город: New York

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Thirteen transfixing new stories from one of the most innovative writers of his generation and one of the most vital and original voices of our time—for fans of George Saunders, Nathan Englander, and Elizabeth Strout.
In these thirteen ingenious stories, Ben Marcus reveals moments of redemption in the sometimes nightmarish modern world. In “The Grow-Light Blues,” a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured testing his employer’s newest nutrition supplement—the enhanced glow from his computer monitor. In the chilling “Cold Little Bird,” a father finds himself alienated from his family when he starts to suspect that his son’s precocity has turned sinister. “The Boys” follows a sister who descends into an affair with her recently widowed brother-in-law. In “Blueprints for St. Louis,” two architects in a flailing marriage consider the ethics of adding a mist that artificially incites emotion in mourners to their latest assignment, a memorial to a terrorist attack.
A heartbreaking collection of stories that showcases the author’s compassion, tenderness, and mordant humor—blistering, beautiful work from a modern master.