feedEnviably Odd Book Title: The Nimrod Flipout
For some reason, I have a love/hate relationship with the word/name "Nimrod." Therefore when I see the word, I'm immediately attracted to it, like flies to the spot just behind your ear, just out of reach but close enough so it seems you can feel the beat of the fly's wings as it buzzes closer then away, closer then away...
From Publishers Weekly
Keret, an Israeli writer who also writes children's books and collaborates with illustrators on graphic stories and novels, specializes in brainteasing short short stories reminiscent of the "Shouts and Murmurs" section of the New Yorker—30 are packed in this thin volume. A typical Keret situation is enacted in "Your Man": the narrator finds that his girlfriends inexplicably break up with him in the back of taxicabs while the radio always announces a caller from a certain address. He goes to the address, finds photos of his exes tacked to the wall and erupts in violence, with repercussions that give new meaning to masochism. Dogs play a role in Keret's stories similar to the sly role they assume in Thurber cartoons, hovering between the fantastic and the everyday, and sex is an obsession
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