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OverviewWinner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up people's birthdays, and you'll have friends calling every day. You need to get girls into bed? Don't worry, your writer friend will write you a very persuasive story. You're standing on the edge of a very high building, with all of your wretched sorrows? Don't worry, fly already! In these 22 short stories, wild capers reveal painful emotional truths, and the bizarre is just another name for the familiar. Wickedly funny and thrillingly smart, Fly Already is a collage of absurdity, despair and love, written by veteran commentator on the circus farce that is life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Etgar Keret , Sondra Silverston , Jessica Cohen , Miriam ShlesingerPublisher: Granta Books Imprint: Granta Books Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.158kg ISBN: 9781783780518ISBN 10: 1783780517 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 October 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsI am in awe of Keret's ability to simultaneously make me laugh while crying, explore the joy and horror of every day life with precision, brevity and great psychological depth. His recognition of and engagement with the absurd is profound and he never loses his humanity, his heart long the way -- AM Homes Brilliantly edgy, unsettling, Kafkaesque and often very funny -- Joyce Carol Oates A reminder that writing can be accessible, creative, intelligent, transgressive, challenging, funny - and popular - all at the same -- Graeme Simsion Reading Fly Already is like settling down for a ride in a luxurious car with a world-class driver who has an extremely crazy worldview that doesn't interfere with his amazing driving. Is there any better way to see the world? -- Elif Batuman Author InformationETGAR KERET is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Esquire. He is the author of five bestselling story collections, which have been translated into 46 languages, an award-winning film called Jellyfish, and a celebrated memoir, The Seven Good Years (Granta, 2015). www.etgarkeret.com Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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