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A review of Modern Love and Other Tall Tales : With prose as clean as Hemingways and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boyd delivers a memorable book in Modern Love and Other Tall Tales . But these tales are not quite so tall as the title might suggest; in fact, their distinction lies in the way they negotiate a fine line between veracity and the farcical. Each narrator seems to fancy himself the rational one while elaborating the most bizarre situation with little or no comment. Boyd exploits this irony by mingling a crushing sense of isolation with a host of eccentric, straight-faced characters whose predicaments become the readers source of stupefaction and endless mirth. In Horny, a man walks around town carrying a heavy wood cross on his back, convinced that suffering will erase his primal instincts; listen is a one-sided conversation in which the narrator formulates a sad and defensive logic that falls on dead ears oras one might imagineno ears at all; and The Further Adventures of Tom, Huck, and Jim transports Twains classic characters to Southern California and brings us hilariously up to date. But Modern Love isnt just one laugh after another. Though Boyd makes light

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Author

Boyd, Greg

Publisher

Red Hen Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781888996227

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities