**SIGNED** I AM AN EXECUTIONER 2012 HCDJ 1ST/1ST by Rajesh Parameswaran
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Period/Movement
- Modernism
- Signed
- Yes
- Modified Item
- No
- Signed By
- Rajesh Parameswaran
- Cultural Region
- American Literature
- Country of Manufacture
- United States
- Year
- 2012
- Subject
- Literature, Modern
- Era
- 21st Century
- Age Level
- Adults
- Special Attributes
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN
- 9780307595928
- EAN
- 9780307595928
- Book Title
- I am an Executioner : Love Stories
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical
- Item Weight
- 14.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307595927
ISBN-13
9780307595928
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109302402
Product Key Features
Book Title
I am an Executioner : Love Stories
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Psychological, Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-033754
Dewey Edition
23
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 Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
An 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 Number
PS3616.A725I15 2012
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- p***6 (46)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseArrived super quick and in perfect condition. Arrived just as expected. It was shipped in a shipping bag so if you are a collector and the packaging matters then there is potential for issues but I open my figures so it wouldn’t have mattered to me. Since I don’t have a target near me it was the less expensive way to go. Packaging did not have any bending for folds.
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