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Bed : Stories by Tao Lin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bed : Stories about?
Contains nine short stories by American author Tao Lin, which feature characters who struggle with laziness, boredom, exhaustion, and other emotions and situations.“Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass - from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious.” - Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than YouCollege students, recent graduates, and their parents work at Denny's, volunteer at a public library in suburban Florida, attend satanic ska/punk concerts, eat Chinese food with the homeless of New York City, and go to the same Japanese restaurant in Manhattan three times in two sleepless days, all while yearning constantly for love, a better kind of love, or something better than love, things which - much like the Loch Ness Monster - they know probably do not exist, but are rumoured to exist and therefore "good enough.""In structure and tone, [the stories in Bed] have the feel of early Lorrie Moore and Deborah Eisenberg. Like Moore's characters, there are a lot of plays on language and within each story, a return to the same images or id
Who reads Bed : Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Tao Lin
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781933633268
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories