Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories (P.S.) - Softcover

Críticas

"Geniously surreal but affecting short stories about spontaneous combustion, Scrabble and angst at all ages. RIYL (Read if you love): George Saunders."--Louisville Courier Journal

"Wilson's little time-bomb fables have a surrealist zip, like miniature Magritte paintings come to life."--Washington Post

"Turns the genre of Southern fiction on its head...Wilson's fully realized characters keep the stories grounded."--Bomb Magazine

"I'm drawn to particular authors, folks like George Saunders and Stacey Richter and Kevin Wilson...who I know are going to kick my ass."--Steve Almond, author of CANDYFREAK

"Kevin Wilson's stories show us a world that is both real and full of illusion...He forces us to look at our own lives in a new and slightly off-kilter way."--Ann Patchett, bestselling author of BEL CANTO

"Kevin Wilson is the unholy child of George Saunders and Carson McCullers.... Jesus Christ is this guy good."--Owen King

"There are 11 troubling, strange, offbeat tales in this collection... It's those sharp insights that keep you reading Wilson's unusual stories."--The Advocate (Baton Rouge)

"Has some of the best writing I've seen in a long, long time. Kevin Wilson's stories not only tunnel to the center of the earth--they tunnel through the intricacies of family, love and the dark places of the human soul."--Hannah Tinti, author of THE GOOD THIEF

"Acute and uniformly unsettling, these fictions explore themes of loss and loneliness with fresh young insight, and occasionally with a faint rainbow at the end."--Boston Globe

"These short stories by Kevin Wilson...are weird in the best way. They are bizarre notions that are fleshed out in sustained narrative by a deft maestro...beautifully rendered."--Memphis Commercial Appeal

Reseña del editor

Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider—a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted.

Southern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.