A Faker's Dozen: Stories
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The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists. An aspiring writer stalks Vladmir Nabokov across midtown Manhattan one afternoon in the summer of Watergate. A young co-ed's seduction of her elderly philosophy professor delivers her an A and him lasting happiness. Max, a liar and a voyeur, like any true artist, wanders the East Village taking photographs of murder victims. A famous Holocaust survivor with the big eyes and the big prize conducts an impromptu circumcision.
Ranging from 1895 Prague to the site of a Central American rebellion to the home of a certain Seattle software magnate to the roof of an urban skyscraper, each of these outrageous (though occasionally tender) stories offers keen insight into human nature.
Ranging from 1895 Prague to the site of a Central American rebellion to the home of a certain Seattle software magnate to the roof of an urban skyscraper, each of these outrageous (though occasionally tender) stories offers keen insight into human nature.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393342522
ISBN13:9780393342529
Release Date:October 2003
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:270 Pages
Weight:0.76 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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The Short Review's review of A Faker's Dozen
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
A good short story is a breath of fresh air; a great short story is a shot of heroin. Anyone who believes that short stories differ from novels only in length has clearly never read a great one. One way to rectify this would be to read A Faker's Dozen: Stories, a collection of 11 gems by Melvin Jules Bukiet. In this, his third short story collection, Bukiet slowly lures the reader into his fictional world, starting near the shadowy border between the real and the ludicrous and then moving firmly into the fantastical by way of the sinister. The excellent first story, Squeak, Memory, begins innocently enough:........... [...]
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