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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374282137

ISBN-139780374282134

eBay Product ID (ePID)228847558

Product Key Features

Book TitleDark Dark : Stories

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year2017

GenreFiction

AuthorSamantha Hunt

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight6.3 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-050909

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ReviewsPraise for The Dark Dark An iBooks Best Book of July A Paris Review staff pick A W Magazine Book by Women Writers to Read This Summer A Chicago Review of Books Book You Need to Read This Summer " T he Dark Dark . . . wields such a subtle and alien power that I couldn't read more than a couple of pieces in a sitting without feeling like some witchy substance was working its way through my blood . . . Wonderfully spooky." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker " The Dark Dark reads like a feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it's the most evocative, impressive collection I've read this year." --Daniel Johnson, The Paris Review "Hunt, with the publication of her first collection of stories, "The Dark Dark,'' is poised to break through as one of our major fiction writers . . . Hunt is by turns hilarious, wry, wrenching, and lyrical." --Priscilla Gilman, The Boston Globe "Liminal fantasy with a solid literary sensibility; sure to please fans of Karen Russell and Lidia Yuknavitch . . . The Dark Dark chews on some delicious, evergreen themes in extraordinary ways." --Carmen Maria Machado, NPR "Like in our best Lynchean dreams, these are stories with talons dipped into the eerie and the supernatural . . . The writing in The Dark Dark is swoon-worthy, and craft-wise, there is not one hair out of place. In fact, if you were standing before me I might push this book immediately into your hands . . . Samantha Hunt has written a perfect story collection." --Ingrid Rojas Contreras, KQED's The Spine " These short stories are works of dark, dark magic that skitter between worlds both recognizable and wholly new. Fans of Hunt's work will revel in her first story collection, which marries her signature flare for the fantastic with keen observation and sharp prose . . . Grab your comforter and a flashlight for this tour de force collection from one of our most inventive storytellers." -- Kirkus , starred review "Designed to jolt and beguile . . . This excellent, inventive collection . . . is rife with observant asides, sly humor, and surprises." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review, Praise for The Dark Dark An iBooks Best Book of July A Paris Review staff pick A W Magazine Book by Women Writers to Read This Summer A Chicago Review of Books Book You Need to Read This Summer " T he Dark Dark . . . wields such a subtle and alien power that I couldn't read more than a couple of pieces in a sitting without feeling like some witchy substance was working its way through my blood . . . Wonderfully spooky." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker " The Dark Dark reads like a feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it's the most evocative, impressive collection I've read this year." --Daniel Johnson, The Paris Review " These short stories are works of dark, dark magic that skitter between worlds both recognizable and wholly new. Fans of Hunt's work will revel in her first story collection, which marries her signature flare for the fantastic with keen observation and sharp prose . . . Grab your comforter and a flashlight for this tour de force collection from one of our most inventive storytellers." -- Kirkus , starred review "Designed to jolt and beguile . . . This excellent, inventive collection . . . is rife with observant asides, sly humor, and surprises." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review, Praise for The Dark Dark An iBooks Best Book of July A Paris Review staff pick A W Magazine Book by Women Writers to Read This Summer A Chicago Review of Books Book You Need to Read This Summer " T he Dark Dark . . . wields such a subtle and alien power that I couldn''t read more than a couple of pieces in a sitting without feeling like some witchy substance was working its way through my blood . . . Wonderfully spooky." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker " The Dark Dark reads like a feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it''s the most evocative, impressive collection I''ve read this year." --Daniel Johnson, The Paris Review "Hunt, with the publication of her first collection of stories, "The Dark Dark,'''' is poised to break through as one of our major fiction writers . . . Hunt is by turns hilarious, wry, wrenching, and lyrical." --Priscilla Gilman, The Boston Globe "Liminal fantasy with a solid literary sensibility; sure to please fans of Karen Russell and Lidia Yuknavitch . . . The Dark Dark chews on some delicious, evergreen themes in extraordinary ways." --Carmen Maria Machado, NPR "The stories intertwine what''s extraordinary and familiar in meaningful ways, taking on density and weight . . . Reading pleasures abound in Hunt''s incisive and witty prose and characters who linger in the mind like acquaintances you hope to meet again." --Katie Pelletier, The Portland Mercury "Like in our best Lynchean dreams, these are stories with talons dipped into the eerie and the supernatural . . . The writing in The Dark Dark is swoon-worthy, and craft-wise, there is not one hair out of place. In fact, if you were standing before me I might push this book immediately into your hands . . . Samantha Hunt has written a perfect story collection." --Ingrid Rojas Contreras, KQED''s The Spine "These short stories are works of dark, dark magic that skitter between worlds both recognizable and wholly new. Fans of Hunt''s work will revel in her first story collection, which marries her signature flare for the fantastic with keen observation and sharp prose . . . Grab your comforter and a flashlight for this tour de force collection from one of our most inventive storytellers." -- Kirkus , starred review "Designed to jolt and beguile . . . This excellent, inventive collection . . . is rife with observant asides, sly humor, and surprises." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "I was enamored with Mr. Splitfoot and didn''t think Samantha Hunt could top that book. I was wrong. The stories in The Dark Dark keep getting better as the book goes on, and by the end I was spellbound. You''d be hard-pressed to find another author like Samantha Hunt. These stories explore not only extraneous terrors (the dark night and the unknown horrors it holds), but also the deep-down fears and savagery and strangeness that exist beyond our understanding. Hunt mines the depths of our subconscious inhumanity to reveal what connects us in ways we can''t imagine, and in her fantastic stories lie the real and familiar. The darkest dark is not an outside entity, but our own humanity, and nobody but Hunt can illuminate the shadowy corners of the soul so well." --Rachel Kaplan, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA "In stories full of doubles and doppelgangers, splitting cells and shadowy figures, Samantha Hunt evokes the uncanny in areas--suburbia, motherhood, marriage--all too often made mundane by lesser writers. In Hunt''s singular voice, however, a wife''s desire becomes a matter of bodily metamorphosis; a dusty backroad becomes a portal between worlds. Vivid and uncompromising, each story is unsettling--not only to the characters within it, upended by a world gone sideways, but to the reader, who recognizes in those characters her own weird thoughts and longings. There it is, the strangeness at the center of our lives, laid bare and fairly pulsing on the page." --Mairead Small Staid, Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI, Praise for Samantha Hunt"Hunt's packed prose writhes with hallucinatory detail." -Amy Gentry, Chicago Tribune "Samantha Hunt's every sentence electrifies." -Kelly Link "One of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I have read in years." -Dave Eggers, Praise for The Dark Dark An iBooks Best Book of July A Paris Review staff pick A W Magazine Book by Women Writers to Read This Summer A Chicago Review of Books Book You Need to Read This Summer " T he Dark Dark . . . wields such a subtle and alien power that I couldn't read more than a couple of pieces in a sitting without feeling like some witchy substance was working its way through my blood . . . Wonderfully spooky." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker " The Dark Dark reads like a feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it's the most evocative, impressive collection I've read this year." --Daniel Johnson, The Paris Review " These short stories are works of dark, dark magic that skitter between worlds both recognizable and wholly new. Fans of Hunt's work will revel in her first story collection, which marries her signature flare for the fantastic with keen observation and sharp prose . . . Grab your comforter and a flashlight for this tour de force collection from one of our most inventive storytellers." -- Kirkus , starred review "Designed to jolt and beguile . . . This excellent, inventive collection . . . is rife with observant asides, sly humor, and surprises." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review Add all the blurbs? And the bookseller blurbs? Also, shouldn't we revise the copy so that some of these are loading up above the description on Amazon (per Clark's talk)? Add W summer best books by women or whatever the lnaguage is. there was nother roundup it was included on, yes?

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SynopsisA Best Book of the Year: NPR , Vogue , The Huffington Post , The Chicago Review of Books , The National Post , Electric Literature , Kirkus "Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker " A feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it's the most evocative, impressive collection I've read this year." --Daniel Johnson, The Paris Review From the acclaimed author of Mr. Splitfoot , Samantha Hunt's first collection of stories, The Dark Dark , blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge--girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more Step into The Dark Dark , where an award-winning, acclaimed novelist debuts her first collection of short stories and conjures entire universes in just a few pages--conjures, splits in half, mines for humor, destroys with absurdity, and regenerates. In prose that sparkles and haunts, Samantha Hunt playfully pushes the bounds of the expected and fills every corner with vibrant life, imagining numerous ways in which the weird might poke its way through the mundane. Each of these ten haunting, inventive tales brings us to the brink--of creation, mortality and immortality, infidelity and transformation, technological innovation and historical revision, loneliness and communion, and every kind of love. Laced with lyricism, hope, Hunt's characteristic sly wit, and her unflinching gaze into the ordinary horrors of human existence, The Dark Dark celebrates the mysteries and connections that swirl around us. It's never all the same, Hunt tells us. It changes a tiny bit every time. See for yourself., The acclaimed novelist Samantha Hunt's first collection of stories blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge--girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more

LC Classification NumberPS3608.U585A6 2017