Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1217 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Someday This Will Be Funny Author: Lynne Tillman Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 10-14-11 Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at the reception. Narrators - by turn infamous and nameless - shift within their own skin, struggling to unknot reminiscence from reality while scenes rush into warm focus, then cool, twist, and snap in the breeze of shifting thought. Epistle, quotation, and haiku bounce between lyrical passages of lucid beauty, echoing the scattered, cycling arpeggio of Tillmans preferred subject: the unsettled mind. Collectively, these stories own a conscience shaped by oaths made and broken; by the skeleton silence and secrets of family; by loves shifting chartreuse. They traffic in the quiet images of personal history, each one a flickering sacrament in danger of being swallowed up by the lust and desperation of their possessor: a fistful of parking tickets shoved in the glove compartment, a little black book hidden from a wife in a safe-deposit box, a planter stuffed with flowers to keep out the cooing mourning doves. They are stories fashioned with candor and animated by fits of wordplay and invention - stories that affirm Tillmans unshakable talent for wedding the patterns and rituals of thought with the blushing immediacy of existence, defying genre and defining experimental short fiction. Critic Reviews: "Despite the claim of the title, Someday This Will Be Funny, you wouldnt want to reach for Lynne Tillmans new book just for a good howl. In fact, that someday the title promises may never come. Tillmans stories are too piercing, the obsessions of her characters too connected to their psychic wounds, for them to be considered exactly funny. In any case, it isnt someday but rather meantime that counts for readers. And in the meantime, Tillmans fictions tend to be (to steal a line from one of her stories) as outrageously ineffable, obdurate and evasive as the forms of desire they describe. Gorgeously at ease and technically virtuosic, the stories are ever on point - on point, that is, if the point of your reading has more to do with psychological nuance and bravura performances of language than with conventional story lines." (Forrest Gander, New York Times)
