num_pages: 160
description: Jim Krusoe’s beset and bemused narrators are awash in a solution of Donald Barthelme’s worthy absurdities and Kafka’s mutating humor. In these surreal, dystopian tales, characters find their way into and out of Plato’s cave, mental hospitals, interspecies love affairs, plane crashes and Gypsy kidnappings. These narratives, which shapeshift and interpenetrate, contain everything form the rhapsodies of a night nurse, to a lyrical meditation on the egg, to lists of wryly named sexual positions. Krusoe’s universe is full of amazing chaos and deadpan astonishment.
language: English
title: Blood Lake and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Blood Lake and Other Stories
genres: Magical Realism, Short Stories, Fiction
ratings_count: 70
publisher: New Harbinger Publications