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“Jeff Parker is a writer who understands that voice is the doorway to all true beauty in fiction. Tight, wry, dark, and deeply funny – he is a master of the hyper-compressed sentence that explodes with more meaning and nuance than should be possible." – George Saunders, author of Pastoralia “Jeff Parker's stories are mysterious, heartfelt, and utterly captivating. In The Taste of Penney he casually flexes a Voltron-like combo of writerly gifts: Ron Carlson's mastery of voice, Elmore Leonard's uncanny ear for dialogue, and Raymond Carver's spare wit. This collection contains some of the most absorbing and brightly imaginative stories I've come across in some time." – Davy Rothbart, FOUND Magazine “Whether moose legs or tongue tips or sperm counts or pennies lodged into a throat, Parker disassembles us so compellingly that we no longer wish to be whole. His inventiveness revises the world as we know it with audacious wit." – Mary Caponegro, author of All Fall Down and The Star Café “Here we have characters in Russian messing up in hilarious ways; taking care of a cheating girlfriend's pet bird; failing miserably at roadside tests in front of cops; spraying indoor centipedes with

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Author

Jeff Parker

Publisher

Dzanc Books : Made available through hoopla

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306626378

Category

work of fiction