Can I read Droll Tales on EtoBox?

Droll Tales by Iris Smyles is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Droll Tales about?

Transformation, identity, and speech that conceals and misleads as much as it explains form the core of these fourteen linked stories and novelettes. We are guided through them by “Iris” and her friend “Jacob,” who, over the course of the book, appear in a variety of guises. They introduce, interact with, or inhabit various characters, each with their own stories to tell. In the romantic, dark, and sometimes surreal worlds they occupy, the commonplace is beautiful and often absurd, reality is a mutually agreed upon illusion, and life is painful, comic, paradoxical, and brief. A young American woman treks through Europe’s great cities working as a living statue; a renowned Chekhov tale is at last translated into Pig Latin; a house full of surrealists compete for love on a reality TV show; a list of fortune cookie messages reveals the inner world of the young man employed to write them. And a story of love and heartbreak is told through sentence diagrams on a fifth grader’s grammar test. Romantic, ironic, with notes of the surreal, Droll Tales is a winning entertainment in Smyles’s singular style, enriched by art history, philosophy, literature, and pop culture, with the mystery of t

Who reads Droll Tales?

Author

Iris Smyles

Publisher

Turtle Point Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781933527611

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, American Fiction