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I Am an Executioner : Love Stories by Rajesh Parameswaran (2012, Hardcover)
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This is a First Edition, First Printing copy, Hand Signed and Dated with "NYC" written by the Author to full title page. I may have multiple copies of this book for sale. May 13, 2012.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307595927
ISBN-139780307595928
eBay Product ID (ePID)109302402
Product Key Features
Book TitleI am an Executioner : Love Stories
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical
Publication Year2012
GenreFiction
AuthorRajesh Parameswaran
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight14.7 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-033754
Reviews"To claim that an author has written inventive stories about love conjures up many possibilities, but none will compare to the fertile imaginings of Rajesh Parameswaran. His debut collection, I Am an Executioner , is filled with the voices of astonishing characters-a misunderstood tiger, a strip mall con man who opens a medical clinic with only library texts to guide him, an executioner, a surveillance agent, a pompous railway manager, and more-whose pitch-perfect stories recalibrate the notion of love and power with dark humor and unbearable tenderness." -Walter Mosley " I Am an Executioner is intelligent and hilarious and wildly imaginative. Parameswaran explores with great delicacy that fraught line between provincial life and modern times. There are traces of Chekhov in his writing. These stories have the power to endure." -Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, author of When Skateboards Will Be Free "Stories that are savagely funny, stories that haunt and sear and stun, stories so original they defy categorization-above all, stories generously laden with sheer reading pleasure: I Am an Executioner is a brilliant and spellbinding collection." -Manil Suri, author of The Death of Vishnu "Brilliantly unnerving, wickedly funny, and deeply satisfying. These are ferocious stories about the power of love both to save and destroy, and what can happen to us when we succumb to our true animal natures. Rajesh Parameswaran writes with elegance and style and a fiendishly seductive wit that will take your breath away. An astonishingly original debut by a writer to reckon with." -Julie Otsuka, author of The Buddha in the Attic "The characters in this first collection, including a frustrated Bengal tiger and a woman gamely managing Thanksgiving dinner with her husband sprawled dead on the floor, suggest an offbeat temperament at work. The venues where these stories have appeared-e.g., McSweeney's , Granta , and Zoetrope -suggest talent at work as well. Great expectations!" - Library Journal " I Am an Executioner gets the pulse racing from word one. I love Rajesh because his last name is even more impossible than my own, and because he has redefined the American short story for me. Bravo!" -Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story "Wonderful stories-like small, deft carnivals entering our desert cities and cranky towns to, for a while, muster us into feeling, resolution, and happiness, before they go on their way. We can't help but be grateful for them." -Charlie Smith, author of Word Comix: Poems , "Brilliantly unnerving, wickedly funny, and deeply satisfying. These are ferocious stories about the power of love both to save and destroy, and what can happen to us when we succumb to our true animal natures. Rajesh Parameswaran writes with elegance and style and a fiendishly seductive wit that will take your breath away. An astonishingly original debut by a writer to reckon with." -Julie Otsuka, author of The Buddha in the Attic "The characters in this first collection, including a frustrated Bengal tiger and a woman gamely managing Thanksgiving dinner with her husband sprawled dead on the floor, suggest an offbeat temperament at work. The venues where these stories have appeared-e.g., McSweeney's , Granta , and Zoetrope -suggest talent at work as well. Great expectations!" - Library Journal " I Am an Executioner gets the pulse racing from word one. I love Rajesh because his last name is even more impossible than my own, and because he has redefined the American short story for me. Bravo!" -Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story "Wonderful stories-like small, deft carnivals entering our desert cities and cranky towns to, for a while, muster us into feeling, resolution, and happiness, before they go on their way. We can't help but be grateful for them." -Charlie Smith, author of Word Comix: Poems
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisAn explosive fiction debut from an astonishing new voice: darkly funny, wildly original stories about the power of love, and the love of power--two urgent human desires that inevitably, and often calamitously, intertwine., An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine. In I Am an Executioner, Rajesh Parameswaran introduces us to a cast of heroes--and antiheroes--who spring from his riotous, singular imagination. From the lovesick tiger who narrates the unforgettable opener, "The Infamous Bengal Ming" (he mauls his zookeeper out of affection), to the ex-CompUSA employee who masquerades as a doctor; from a railroad manager in a turn-of-the-century Indian village, to an elephant writing her autobiography; from a woman whose Thanksgiving preparations put her husband to eternal rest, to the newlywed executioner of the title, these characters inhabit a marvelous region between desire and death, playfulness and violence. At once glittering and savage, daring and elegant, here are wholly unforgettable tales where reality loops in Borgesian twists and shines with cinematic exuberance, by an author who promises to dazzle the universe of American fiction.
LC Classification NumberPS3616.A725I15 2012
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