· The title is taken from one of the stories ("Intimation"), but is also a play on Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality"—only in this case it’s not clear exactly what is being intimated, but it’s nothing so gleaming and good as Immortality.5/5(1). · about. From the celebrated author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, a thought-provoking, often unsettling story collection that consists, broadly, of narrative diagrams of the three main stages in a human life: birth, life, and death. Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, and Tom . Intimations is a wacky, awkward, romantic, inspiring, thrilling, and apocalyptic short story collection. Alexandra Kleeman weaves threads around the fragility and anxiety of the human condition and draws lines between the feral to the obedient/5.
"The best of the stories in Alexandra Kleeman's collection INTIMATIONS unfold in dreamlike settings that are more than a little dangerous. There are sharp teeth, axes, and claws and not a few pools of blood. But Kleeman's scary stories have a gentle comic edge. She has a gothic imagination and a wit keen to the absurdities of American. A kind of philosophical whimsy infuses Alexandra Kleeman's INTIMATIONS, but it's the everyday strangeness at play in a trio of stories about a young woman named Karen that makes this collection a standout. bltadwin.ru Strange, surreal Kleeman has a potent pen, and every story will surprise you in the best of ways. Bustle. It may come as a surprise to those who know Alexandra Kleeman only through her writing that she laughs easily. After her all, her first novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, and her short stories—which have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and twelve of which have been gathered in her début collection, Intimations, out this month—are suffused with a vague sense of.
To begin an Alexandra Kleeman story is to tumble into a world where the line between the fantastic and the ordinary, between love and violence, between terror and joy, is thrillingly porous. INTIMATIONS is an enlivening and deliciously unpredictable work of fiction, the kind that demonstrates an all-too-rare respect for the deep mystery of the human heart. ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN’S SHORT STORIES. It may come as a surprise to those who know Alexandra Kleeman only through her writing that she laughs easily. After her all, her first novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, and her short stories—which have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and twelve of which have been gathered in her début collection, Intimations, out this month—are suffused with a vague sense of threat and dread, and she is not shy to admit that her work comes. Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, which was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. In , she was awarded the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among others, and other writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, VOGUE, Tin House, n+1, and.
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