
False Bingo: Stories - Jac Jemc
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Vezi oferta la libris.roThe mundane becomes sinister in a disquieting story collection from the author of The Grip of It. In Jemc's dislocating second story collection, sinister forces--some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not--work their ways into everyday life.yday life.Combines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood --The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Fall Read by The Boston Globe and the Chicago TribuneThe mundane becomes sinister in a disquieting story collection from the author of The Grip of ItIn Jac Jemc's dislocating second story collection, False Bingo, we watch as sinister forces--some supernatural, some of this earth, some real and some not--work their ways into the mundanity of everyday life. In Strange Loop, an outcast attempting to escape an unnamed mistake spends his days taxiderming animals, while in Delivery, a family watches as their dementia-addled, basement-dwelling father succumbs to an online shopping addiction. Don't Let's finds a woman, recently freed from an abusive relationship, living in an isolated vacation home in the South that might be haunted by breath-stealing ghosts. Fueled by paranoia and visceral suspense, and crafted with masterful restraint, these seventeen stories explore what happens when our fears cross over into the real, if only for a fleeting moment. Identities are stolen, alternate universes are revealed, and innocence is lost as











