num_pages: 210
description: Loory's collection of wry and witty dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by peopleand monsters and trees and jocular octopiwho are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe televisions talk (and sometimes sing) animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable myth and dream Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination.Contains 40 stories including The Duck The Man and the Moose and Death and the Fruits of the Tree as heard on NPR's This American Life The Book as heard on Selected Shorts and The TV as found in The New Yorker.A selection of the Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and the Starbucks Coffee Bookish Reading Club.Winner of the 2011 Nobbie Award for Best Book of the Year.This guy can write! Ray Bradbury author of Fahrenheit 451
language: English
title: Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
publisher: Penguin Books