{"product_id":"intimations-stories-9780062388711","title":"Intimations: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Haunting. . . . Wonderfully strange and eerie, \u003cem\u003eIntimations\u003c\/em\u003e outlines the confusion, loss, and anxieties that underlie the different stages of mortality, forcing us to re-examine the often unsettling realities of our existence.\" -- \u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Brilliantly alive. . . . the world is parsed with a charming exactitude that magnifies all its latent marvels and especially horrors--the blacker and more peculiar these stories get, the funnier they are.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003cem\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/em\u003e, a thought-provoking, often unsettling story collection that consists, broadly, of narrative diagrams of the three main stages in a human life: birth, life, and death.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra Kleeman's debut novel \u003cem\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/em\u003e earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, and Tom Perrotta. It was praised by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e as \"a powerful allegory of our civilization's many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her second book, a collection of twelve stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she explores human life from beginning to end: the distress of birth into a world already formed; the brief and confusing period of \"living\" where we understand what is expected of us and struggle to do it; and the death-y period toward the end where we sense it is ending and will end only partially understood, at best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title is taken from one of the stories (\"Intimation\"), but is also a play on Wordsworth's \"Intimations of Immortality\"--only in this case it's not clear exactly what is being intimated, but it's nothing so gleaming and good as Immortality. The middle, \"Living\" section of the book, is fleshed out with a set of stories that borrow more from traditional realist fiction to illustrate the inner lives of the characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once familiar and mysterious, these stories have an eerie resonance as its characters find themselves in new and surprising situations. An unnamed woman enters a room with no exit and a ready-made life; the disappearance of people, objects, and memory creates an apocalypse; the art of dance is used to try to tame a feral child; the key to surviving a house-party lies in knowing the difference between fake and real blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegant, surprising, wondrous, and haunting, \u003cem\u003eIntimations\u003c\/em\u003e is an utterly transporting collection from one of our most ingenious and brilliant young writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKleeman, Alexandra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAlexandra Kleeman has written for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker, Harper's, Paris Review, Zoetrope, Tin House, VOGUE\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003en+1\u003c\/em\u003e. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has received grants and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She was the 2016 winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, and lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523420590354,"sku":"9780062388711","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5e00fc1-0d00-4e0f-91ff-47e315baf5de.jpg?v=1731147211","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/intimations-stories-9780062388711","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}