Eating Naked Stories
Eating Naked Stories by Stephen Dobyns, published by Penguin in 2000, presents a collection of sixteen short stories that delve into the complexities of life in small-town America. This edition, written in English and spanning 276 pages, explores the dark and often unsettling forces that challenge the ordinary lives of its characters. Dobyns captures the essence of human nature, revealing how guilt, compulsions, and crises can disrupt the fabric of everyday existence.
Readers will find a range of narratives that oscillate between the surreal and the poignant, offering insights into the lives of men and women grappling with their own irrational behaviors. The stories feature a diverse cast, including poets burdened by guilt, spouses facing sexual compulsions, and farmers experiencing mid-life crises. Through sharp humor and profound observations, Eating Naked Stories examines the unpredictable nature of life, where order and reason frequently give way to chaos.
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Here Stephen Dobyns, peerless chronicler of the menace and unease that lurk in small-town America, turns his attention to the dark, inescapable forces that test the patience, fidelity and good sense of the most ordinary people. The sixteen stories in EATING NAKED range from surreal to poignant, from chilling to comic. At the centre of them all are men and women challenged by their own uncontrollable, illogical natures: poets with free-floating guilt, spouses with unacceptable sexual compulsions, farmers with mid-life crises, gas men with erratic timetables. Sharp, funny and profound, EATING NAKED gets to the heart of a world in which order and reason rarely prevail.
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