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Fly already / Etgar Keret ; translated by Sondra Silverston, Nathan Englander, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, Yardenne Greenspan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First American editionDescription: 209 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781594633270
  • 1594633274
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections. English
Contained works:
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Fly already
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- One gram short
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Next-to-last time I was shot out of a cannon
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Todd
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Tabula Rasa
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Car concentrate
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- At night
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Windows
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- To the moon and back
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- GooDeed
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Crumb cake
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Dad with mashed potatoes
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Arctic lizard
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Ladder
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Ya vashem
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- The birthday of a failed revolutionary
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Allergies
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Fungus
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Chips
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Home
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Pineapple crush
  • Keret, Etgar, 1967- Evolution of a breakup
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Fly already -- One gram short -- The next-to-last time I was shot out of a cannon -- Todd -- Tabula Rasa -- Car concentrate -- At night -- Windows -- To the moon and back -- GooDeed -- Crumb cake -- Dad with mashed potatoes -- Arctic lizard -- Ladder -- Yad Vashem -- The birthday of a failed revolutionary -- Allergies -- Fungus -- Chips -- Home -- Pineapple crush -- Evolution of a breakup.
Summary: There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move.... The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Keret, Etgar Checked out 05/20/2024 33111009726692
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Fiction Keret, Etgar Available 33111008245454
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From a "genius" ( New York Times ) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection.

"There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." --George Saunders

There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move . . .

In "Arctic Lizard," a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in "Fly Already." In "One Gram Short," a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece "Pineapple Crush," two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship.

The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.

Fly already -- One gram short -- The next-to-last time I was shot out of a cannon -- Todd -- Tabula Rasa -- Car concentrate -- At night -- Windows -- To the moon and back -- GooDeed -- Crumb cake -- Dad with mashed potatoes -- Arctic lizard -- Ladder -- Yad Vashem -- The birthday of a failed revolutionary -- Allergies -- Fungus -- Chips -- Home -- Pineapple crush -- Evolution of a breakup.

There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move.... The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.

Translated from the Hebrew.

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