The Extremities!
Autor Samantha Kimmeyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781685970246
ISBN-10: 1685970249
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 148 x 216 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10: 1685970249
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 148 x 216 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Recenzii
“A prescient and absurdist office drama that is equal parts hilarious and haunting. Reading this book felt like looking at melted glass.”—Rita Bullwinkel, author, Headshot
“The Extremities! is a peculiar and perfect novel. Eerie, maddening, and sometimes even funny, Kimmey’s novel is art for the fearful present, humming a note of dread that feels both hauntingly familiar and completely new.”—Lydia Kiesling, author, Mobility
“Samantha Kimmey’s The Extremities! is a slow-burn of a disaster novel where a local reporter navigates her anti-tech, anti-tourist, back-to-nature boyfriend, the increased fires in the dry and heavily forested area nearby, an undiagnosed nerve pain disorder that confounds all comers, a bizarre dictation program and the even more bizarre box that reads her thoughts, administered by her boyfriend’s friend Lee, whose rich landlords have begun to buy up more and more land; in fact, many shadowy figures seem to be buying up more and more land, the story becomes a sort of Pynchonian conspiracy met by a person who, like every last one of us, is just not equipped to deal with that kind of shit. It is a story about the things we carry with us and the things that will bury us; it is about everyone asking us what we ask of the world and we simply cannot seem to find the words. You’ll get all the answers you were looking for. What happens next is up to you.”—Sasha Fletcher, author, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World
“A fascinating psychological novel in which visceral chronic pain becomes a woman’s excuse for evading her problems, The Extremities! is about the surprising secrets behind personal ailments.”—Foreword Reviews
“The Extremities! is a peculiar and perfect novel. Eerie, maddening, and sometimes even funny, Kimmey’s novel is art for the fearful present, humming a note of dread that feels both hauntingly familiar and completely new.”—Lydia Kiesling, author, Mobility
“Samantha Kimmey’s The Extremities! is a slow-burn of a disaster novel where a local reporter navigates her anti-tech, anti-tourist, back-to-nature boyfriend, the increased fires in the dry and heavily forested area nearby, an undiagnosed nerve pain disorder that confounds all comers, a bizarre dictation program and the even more bizarre box that reads her thoughts, administered by her boyfriend’s friend Lee, whose rich landlords have begun to buy up more and more land; in fact, many shadowy figures seem to be buying up more and more land, the story becomes a sort of Pynchonian conspiracy met by a person who, like every last one of us, is just not equipped to deal with that kind of shit. It is a story about the things we carry with us and the things that will bury us; it is about everyone asking us what we ask of the world and we simply cannot seem to find the words. You’ll get all the answers you were looking for. What happens next is up to you.”—Sasha Fletcher, author, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World
“A fascinating psychological novel in which visceral chronic pain becomes a woman’s excuse for evading her problems, The Extremities! is about the surprising secrets behind personal ailments.”—Foreword Reviews
Notă biografică
Samantha Kimmey is the store manager at Point Reyes Books. She lives in West Marin, California.
Descriere
One day at work, a young newspaper reporter is suddenly struck with a mysterious pain in her hands that renders her unable to type. Kim initially believes the disorder—as she refers to it—will disappear quickly. But attempts at treatment fail and no medical professional seems able to diagnose her. Though the disorder puts her job, her relationship, and her state of mind in jeopardy, Kim begins to feel a strange kinship to the pain, a desire to “obey” it. Will submitting to the pain enable Kim to transcend it, or will it further derail her from the life she intended to lead?