Thrilled to death : selected stories / Lynne Tillman ; with an introduction Christina Smallwood ; with an afterword by Lucy Sante.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tillman, Lynne, author.

Sante, Lucy, author of introduction.

Smallwood, Christina, author of afterword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 304 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Soft Skull edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2025.

Summary:

Curated by the author, Thrilled to Death is the definitive entry point for both established fans and new readers alike. These stories collect a bold, playful, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman's Borgesian fictions that span decades and traverse themes of sex, death, memory, and anxiety. With argumentative wit, Tillman's meditations and reflections on art, politics, and culture are animated by deliciously paradoxical characters who desire and fret in turn, and who are imbued with searing intelligence and dolorous ambivalence-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Come and go

There's a snake in the grass

Coming of age in Xania

No object in mind

Myself as a menu

Hung up

Contingencies

Maybe

Aka Mergatroyde

Pleasure isn't a pretty picture

A dead summer

My time, my side

More sex

Other movies

Absence makes the heart

Hold me (9 stories)

Living with contradictions

That's how wrong my love is

Dead talk

This is not it

Madame Realism's torch song

A Greek story

Madame Realism's conscience

Hello and goodbye

Boots and remorse

On the small act of leaving the house

The substitute

A simple idea

Tiny struggles

The undiagnosed

Playing hurt

Diary of a masochist

Angela and Sal

Future prosthetic@?

The original impulse

The shadow of a doubt

What she could do

Dear Ollie

The dead live longer

Five short stories

Thrilled to death.

ISBN:

9781593767198

1593767196

OCLC:

1458305734