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The Great Frustration

Stories

Seth Fried

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English
Soft Skull Press
01 May 2011
""Fried's stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and wonderfully weird, yet his many strange worlds also have the power to haunt."" --Dan Chaon

In ""Loeka Discovered,"" a buzz flows throughout a lab when scientists unearth a perfectly preserved prehistoric man who suggests to them the hopefulness of life, but the more they learn, the more the realities of ancient survival invade their buoyant projections. ""Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre"" meditates on why an entire town enthusiastically rushes out to the annual picnic that ends, year after year, in a massacre of astonishing creativity and casualty. The title story illuminates the desires and even the violence that surges beneath the tenuous peace among the animals in the Garden of Eden.

Equal parts fable and wry satire, Seth Fried's stories suggest that we are at our most compelling and human when wrestling with the most frustrating aspects of both the world around us and of our very own natures-and show why he has been called ""one of the most exciting new voices in fiction"" (Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe).

""He's channeling Saunders by way of Barthelme and Kafka, but also clearing a whole new territory of his own . . . Seth Fried is the future of fiction."" -Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief
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Imprint:   Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   199g
ISBN:   9781593764166
ISBN 10:   1593764162
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Seth Fried is a fiction and humor writer. He is the author of the novel The Municipalists and the short story collection The Great Frustration. He is a recurring contributor to The New Yorker's ""Shouts and Murmurs"" and NPR's ""Selected Shorts."" His stories have appeared in Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Kenyon Review, Vice, and many others. He is also the winner of two Pushcart Prizes and the William Peden Prize.

Reviews for The Great Frustration: Stories

Praise for The Great Frustration <br> Seth Fried's stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and wonderfully weird, yet his many strange worlds also have the power to haunt, echoing the sorrows and yearnings of ordinary life in the way dreams can. This is an inspired and inspiring collection from an important new young writer. --Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply <br> Seth Fried has a wildly humorous imagination, but also sharp technical skills and beauty of language that weaves deep examinations of self and humanity into the inner folds of his crazy worlds. He's channeling Saunders by way of Barthelme and Kafka, but also clearing a whole new territory of his own. Listen up and open this book: Seth Fried is the future of fiction. --Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief <br> Seth Fried should not be read by those with a heart condition, or by women who are nursing or pregnant. Do not read Seth Fried when driving or operating heavy machinery. Because his stories are not o


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