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S Esuire The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories Now the most intense and original of his short fictions have been brought together in The Civilized Tribes New and Selected Stories Grounded in a world that is almost familiar inhabited by people who are not uite The Civilized eBook ordinary these eleven tales will take readers far south of the psychological comfort zone into a borderland of dark sensibility brilliant humor and unsettling sex The.
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The Civilized Tribes New and Selected StoriesStories told in this book reflect what Gertrude Stein had in mind when she revised Longfellow's famous lines Life is not real it is not earnest it is strange Jerry Bumpus saluted in the s as the king of underground writers has emerged Civilized Tribes New Epub in the s to the broader acclaim that his innovative work has long deserved The Civilized Tribes New and Selected Stories reveals Bumpus as the sole occupant of his own category in American Fiction.
READ ☆ The Civilized Tribes New and Selected Stories The Civilized Tribes New and Selected StoriesIn his photograph on the back cover Jerry Bumpus looks every inch the mild mannered academic his biog alongside suggests But look closer because there's a wicked glint in his eye He's a sadist he brings together a little person and a massive vicious dog virtually every story is sloppy with blood and brutality or sex usually brother sister incest or troilism or god knows what An unstoppable brutality often powers the story while victims go into a trance The book not so much pins you to the chair as abducts you and chains you to the floor and then whips you It's fucking sickening and brilliant and unstoppable 'A Lament to Wolves' reminds me of William Goyen with its farmyard setting patricide incest and stunning description of one person's power over another a whole group through sheer force of will The title story is a beauty and starts off with a fork lift truck accident at work There are some breathin
READ ☆ The Civilized Tribes New and Selected Stories The Civilized Tribes New and Selected StoriesJerry Bumpus is a really interesting v original writer The stories are funny odd often voice driven which I prefer There are a number of stand outs Popinjay's African Notes is the one that comes to mind now