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Lopez has the ability to give the reader whiplash with his unconventional and bewitching stories.” Los Angeles TimesRobert Lopez is the master of deadpan dread, of the elliptical koan, of the sudden turn of language that reveals life to be so wonderfully absurd. Always with Lopez, the voice is all hisenchanting, surprising, at times devastating.” JESS WALTER, author of Beautiful RuinsRobert Lopez's strange, incantatory, visionary stories reveal the mysteries behind the ordinary world. You lift your head from this book and it's as if a third eye has been opened.” DAN CHAON, author of Await Your Reply and Stay AwakeNothing is funnier than unhappiness,” claims Samuel Beckett. To this, we add: nothing is funnier than unhappiness with a heavy dose of amorality, as we learn from Robert Lopez's unforgettable Good People. In these twenty stories, a motley cast of obsessive, self-deluded outsiders narrate their darker moments, which include kidnapping, voyeurism, and psychic masochism. As their struggles give way to the black humor of life's unreason, the bleak merges with the oddly poetic, in a style as lean and resolute as Carver or Hemingway.Treading the fine line between confess

Who reads Good People?

Author

Robert Lopez

Publisher

New York: Bellevue Literary Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781942658023

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.54 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14