Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories

✍ Scribed by Unferth, Deb Olin

• Book ID: 109989934
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 204 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781555977689

✦ Synopsis

"Deb Olin Unferth is one of the most daring and entertaining writers in America today." --Sam Lipsyte

For more than ten years, Deb Olin Unferth has been publishing startlingly askew, wickedly comic, cutting-edge fiction in magazines such as Granta ,Harper's Magazine , McSweeney's , NOON , and The Paris Review. Her stories are revered by some of the best American writers of our day, but until now there has been no stand-alone collection of her short fiction.

Wait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling "The First Full Thought of Her Life," a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In "Voltaire Night," students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In "Stay Where You Are," two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they...