{"product_id":"you-are-having-a-good-time-paperback","title":"You Are Having a Good Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmie Barrodale\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed A Best Book of 2016 by \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal, Vulture, \u003c\/i\u003eRefinery29, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYou Are Having a Good Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Amie Barrodale's collection of highly compressed and charged tales, the veneer of normality is stripped from her characters' lives to reveal the seething and contradictory desires that fuel them. In \"Animals,\" an up-and-coming starlet harbors a complicated attraction toward her abusive director. In \"Frank Advice for Fat Women,\" an ethically compromised psychiatrist is drawn into the middle of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship. And in \"The Imp,\" a supernatural possession ruins a man's relationship with his pregnant wife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarrodale's protagonists drink too much, say the wrong things, want the wrong people. They're hounded by longings (and sometimes ghosts) to the point where they are forced to confront the illusions they cling to. They're brought to life in stories that don't behave as you expect stories to behave. Barrodale's startlingly funny and original fictions get under your skin and make you reconsider the fragile compromises that underpin our daily lives.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmie Barrodale\u003c\/b\u003e's stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. In 2012 she was awarded \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story \"William Wei.\" She is a former staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/i\u003e and is currently the fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762303762720,"sku":"9780374293864","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3b469dec26eb9b6d5a4d1ddab4fd81a1.webp?v=1780219132","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/you-are-having-a-good-time-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}