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Title: Funny Once
Author: Antonya Nelson
Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-20-14
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Summary:
Michael Chabon once said, I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again. And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, Funny Once, a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In The Village, a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage sons relationship with a bad-news girlfriend. In the novella Three Wishes, siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brothers too-early departure from the world. The landscape of this audiobook is the wide open spaces of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Throughout, there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget, to have sex with the wrong people, to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night. These characters are aging, regretting actions both taken and not, inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can. And in Funny Once, their flawed humanity is made beautiful, perfectly observed by one of Americas best short story writers.
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