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    Praised by the New York Times Book Review as “a powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation,” Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, and Tom Perrotta. In her second book, a collection of twelve stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she explores human life from beginning to end: the distress o

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    Intimations: Stories Hardcover – Deckle

    Edge, September 13, 2016

    From the celebrated author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,a thought-provoking, often
    unsettling story collection that consists, broadly, of narrative diagrams of the three main stages in a
    human life: birth, life, and death.

    Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine earned her comparisons to
    Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, and Tom Perrotta. It was praised by the New York
    Times as "a powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated,
    by one of the young wise women of our generation."

    In her second book, a collection of twelve stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she
    explores human life from beginning to end: the distress of birth into a world already formed; the brief
    and confusing period of "living" where we understand what is expected of us and struggle to do it;
    and the death-y period toward the end where we sense it is ending and will end only partially
    understood, at best.

    The title is taken from one of the stories ("Intimation"), but is also a play on Wordsworth's
    "Intimations of Immortality"—only in this case it’s not clear exactly what is being intimated, but it’s
    nothing so gleaming and good as Immortality. The middle, "Living" section of the book, is fleshed out
    with a set of stories that borrow more from traditional realist fiction to illustrate the inner lives of the
    characters.

    At once familiar and mysterious, these stories have an eerie resonance as its characters find
    themselves in new and surprising situations. An unnamed woman enters a room with no exit and a
    ready-made life; the disappearance of people, objects, and memory creates an apocalypse; the art
    of dance is used to try to tame a feral child; the key to surviving a house-party lies in knowing the
    difference between fake and real blood.

    Elegant, surprising, wondrous, and haunting, Intimations is an utterly transporting collection from one
    of our most ingenious and brilliant young writers.

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