Assisted living: four fictions
β Scribed by Gary Lutz
- Publisher
- Future Tense Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 22 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Portland
- ISBN
- 1892061783
- ASIN
- B073G9J63D
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Gary Lutzβs new fictions dig deeper into the psyche of men and women grappling with making sense of their aging bodies and frantic but tired hearts, often living in towns where βall roads led to the one road that wasnβt going where you wanted to go.β Full of propulsive sentences and a humor made darker by his charactersβ sharp bitterness, Assisted Living is another dose of scathing sadness and comedy.
βLutz is a master prose stylist.β βBookforum
βGary Lutz is a revolutionary force in American writing, reinventing prose fiction with sentences that always deliver on their extravagant promises.β βSam Lipsyte
βGary Lutz is a masterβliving proof that . . . true originality is still an American possibility.β βGeorge Saunders
Part of the Future Tense Scout Books series, chapbooks printed by the wonderful people at Scout Books, Portland, Oregon.
β¦ Subjects
Fiction
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