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I Am Here to Make Friends

Robert Long Foreman

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Description:These darkly comic and earnestly intimate stories combine the incisive energy of the essay-istic with the willing gaze of the individualistic outsider, bringing a freshness to this collection of short fiction, containing award-winning pieces alongside a brand-new gem, that smacks of real life: surprising, unexpected, and intense. A young man digs a canal through his record collection. An expectant father falls in love with a revolver. A woman learns a tornado has leveled her neighboring town, and she is overjoyed, because she hated that town; and a college professor in the near, twisted future is required to carry a gun into his classroom, where he finds that, with a firearm under his jacket, the students finally pay him the attention he deserves. Told with mordant wit, these nine stories show us what happens when what we need is a friend but instead we get something far, far worse."The sly, deadpan humor in many of these stories is both charming and artful. Humor strikes me as one of the most elusive qualities in fiction, but to Robert Foreman comedy seems second nature. This is an impressive, highly original and satisfying collection." --Christine Sneed, author of The Virginity of Famous Men“Robert Long Foreman’s stories are so smooth. They glide along as if on ice. No tricks, to twirls, no fancy moves. And then you realize that that ice is dangerously thin. Every story of Foreman’s is two stories. There’s the top story, the narrative itself. But underneath is another story, keeping pace, racing along, hyperventilating…The driest humor, the wildest imagination. Bizarre stuff told by the most matter-of-fact, deadpan narrators. In every story, Robert Long Foreman achieves what even the best bestselling authors fail to do: render the extraordinary ordinary; the ordinary, extraordinary.”--Sara Pritchard, author of Crackpots (a novel), Lately, and Help Wanted: Female (stories)"Robert Long Foreman is an exciting and original new voice in fiction, which is abundantly evident in his thrilling debut collection, I Am Here to Make Friends. In the tradition of DeLillo and Saunders—and Foreman belongs in the company of such great writers—Foreman’s characters are ordinary unsung people whose lives are made briefly interesting by a small unexpected change or phenomenon that slowly, hilariously, and poignantly spirals into absurdity. With a deft hand, Foreman spins sentences that are subtly surprising and vibrant with meaning. He’s an acute observer of human nature, of the ironies and duplicities inherent in contemporary American culture. His wry wit is a gift that he deploys--like a literary weapon--to make you chuckle at his characters (ourselves), even as he stealthily breaks your heart with their thwarted longing. Foreman’s I am Here to Make Friends is a brilliant and compelling collection by an exceptionally talented writer who reveals the weirdness in our day to day lives at this moment in history. This is a dazzling book."-- Maureen Stanton, author of Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood and Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting. Robert Long Foreman has won a Pushcart prize and has published work in various literary magazines. His collection of essays, Among Other Things, was published by Pleiades Press in 2017. He lives in Kansas City. Discover more at http://www.robertlongforeman.comWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I Am Here to Make Friends. To get started finding I Am Here to Make Friends, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 219

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Sundress Publications

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1951979044

Description: These darkly comic and earnestly intimate stories combine the incisive energy of the essay-istic with the willing gaze of the individualistic outsider, bringing a freshness to this collection of short fiction, containing award-winning pieces alongside a brand-new gem, that smacks of real life: surprising, unexpected, and intense. A young man digs a canal through his record collection. An expectant father falls in love with a revolver. A woman learns a tornado has leveled her neighboring town, and she is overjoyed, because she hated that town; and a college professor in the near, twisted future is required to carry a gun into his classroom, where he finds that, with a firearm under his jacket, the students finally pay him the attention he deserves. Told with mordant wit, these nine stories show us what happens when what we need is a friend but instead we get something far, far worse."The sly, deadpan humor in many of these stories is both charming and artful. Humor strikes me as one of the most elusive qualities in fiction, but to Robert Foreman comedy seems second nature. This is an impressive, highly original and satisfying collection." --Christine Sneed, author of The Virginity of Famous Men“Robert Long Foreman’s stories are so smooth. They glide along as if on ice. No tricks, to twirls, no fancy moves. And then you realize that that ice is dangerously thin. Every story of Foreman’s is two stories. There’s the top story, the narrative itself. But underneath is another story, keeping pace, racing along, hyperventilating…The driest humor, the wildest imagination. Bizarre stuff told by the most matter-of-fact, deadpan narrators. In every story, Robert Long Foreman achieves what even the best bestselling authors fail to do: render the extraordinary ordinary; the ordinary, extraordinary.”--Sara Pritchard, author of Crackpots (a novel), Lately, and Help Wanted: Female (stories)"Robert Long Foreman is an exciting and original new voice in fiction, which is abundantly evident in his thrilling debut collection, I Am Here to Make Friends. In the tradition of DeLillo and Saunders—and Foreman belongs in the company of such great writers—Foreman’s characters are ordinary unsung people whose lives are made briefly interesting by a small unexpected change or phenomenon that slowly, hilariously, and poignantly spirals into absurdity. With a deft hand, Foreman spins sentences that are subtly surprising and vibrant with meaning. He’s an acute observer of human nature, of the ironies and duplicities inherent in contemporary American culture. His wry wit is a gift that he deploys--like a literary weapon--to make you chuckle at his characters (ourselves), even as he stealthily breaks your heart with their thwarted longing. Foreman’s I am Here to Make Friends is a brilliant and compelling collection by an exceptionally talented writer who reveals the weirdness in our day to day lives at this moment in history. This is a dazzling book."-- Maureen Stanton, author of Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood and Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting. Robert Long Foreman has won a Pushcart prize and has published work in various literary magazines. His collection of essays, Among Other Things, was published by Pleiades Press in 2017. He lives in Kansas City. Discover more at http://www.robertlongforeman.comWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I Am Here to Make Friends. To get started finding I Am Here to Make Friends, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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