{"product_id":"good-people-paperback-1","title":"Good People - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Lopez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lopez has the ability to give the reader whiplash with his unconventional and bewitching stories.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Robert Lopez is the master of deadpan dread, of the elliptical koan, of the sudden turn of language that reveals life to be so wonderfully absurd. Always with Lopez, the voice is all his--enchanting, surprising, at times devastating.\" --\u003cb\u003eJESS WALTER\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Robert Lopez's strange, incantatory, visionary stories reveal the mysteries behind the ordinary world. You lift your head from this book and it's as if a third eye has been opened.\" --\u003cb\u003eDAN CHAON\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAwait Your Reply\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStay Awake\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,\" claims Samuel Beckett. To this, we add: nothing is funnier than unhappiness with a heavy dose of amorality, as we learn from Robert Lopez's unforgettable \u003ci\u003eGood People\u003c\/i\u003e. In these twenty stories, a motley cast of obsessive, self-deluded outsiders narrate their darker moments, which include kidnapping, voyeurism, and psychic masochism. As their struggles give way to the black humor of life's unreason, the bleak merges with the oddly poetic, in a style as lean and resolute as Carver or Hemingway. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTreading the fine line between confession and self-justification, the absurd violence of threatened masculinity, and the perverse joy of neurosis, Lopez's stories reveal the compulsive suffering at the precarious core of our universal humanity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Lopez\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003ePart of the World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKamby Bolongo Mean River\u003c\/i\u003e, and the story collection \u003ci\u003eAsunder\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Lopez\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003ePart of the World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKamby Bolongo Mean River\u003c\/i\u003e, and two story collections, \u003ci\u003eAsunder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGood People\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). Among other places, his fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHobart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterarian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNerve\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Norton anthology \u003ci\u003eSudden Fiction Latino\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches fiction writing at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769826869536,"sku":"9781942658023","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/418e20372e4411666954798c9c86216f.webp?v=1780357790","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/good-people-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}