Intimations: Stories - Couverture rigide

“Haunting...Wonderfully strange and eerie, INTIMATIONS 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.” (Buzzfeed)

“Impressive...brilliantly executed...Reading her, you are left feeling dislocated by the world’s strangeness, and wondering if she and her discombobulated characters are really the sane ones.” (New York Times)

“A collection of twelve stories sure to please any reader who reveled in the heady strangeness of her novel...With this collection, Kleeman continues to establish herself as one of the most brilliant chroniclers of our 21st-century anxieties.” (The Millions)

“Like DeLillo, [Kleeman’s] spare sentences are each powerful in their own right, but they work together to form funny critiques of her surroundings...her characters pick apart the meanings of specific words in absurd, realer-than-real scenes.” (Huffington Post)

“Alexandra Kleeman sees things differently. At least, that’s how it feels when you read these curious and lovely stories. Existence, survival, touch: all become strange in this collection from the author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, as if the author knows of a different dimension or scientific method we have no idea is out there.” (Elle)

“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.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Just 30 and already being compared to Thomas Pynchon, Kleeman confirms her status with her latest: 12 deliciously unsettling short stories.” (O, the Oprah Magazine)

“Kleeman presents family dysfunction, romantic entanglements, and survival through an intriguingly warped lens.” (Cosmopolitan)

“Following her excellent debut novel, YOU TOO CAN HAVE A BODY LIKE MINE, Kleeman brings her twisted, evocative style to a thought-provoking collection of stories....These stories, absurdist, bleak, and funny, defy straightforward interpretation and instead linger long afterward to be reinterpreted as they mutate in the reader’s mind.” (Publishers Weekly)

“[Kleeman is] a patient, lyrical chronicler of young urban people and this new collection of 12 short stories sees her take on all stages of human life in her unique style.” (The Guardian)