Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Scott Snyder s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an employee at Niagara Falls (his job: watching for jumpers) will take off in a car after a blimp in which his girlfriend has escaped. But in Snyder s wondrous imagination there s a thin membrane between the whimsical and the disturbing: the unlikely affair between a famous actress in hiding after surgery and a sporting goods salesman takes an ominous turn just as she begins to heal; an engaged couple s relationship is fractured when one of them becomes obsessed with an inmate at the women s prison next door. Dark, funny, powerful, this debut collection underscores the remarkable gifts of a fiercely original young writer.
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