"DeMarinis is a wizard shaking to its literary roots the short-story genre."—Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe
Rick DeMarinis possesses a power and an originality unique in contemporary American fiction. The Coming Triumph of the Free World, his second story collection, puts his flamboyant gifts on display: an amazing verbal energy, a blackly comic vision of the world as an immense booby trap, and a technical virtuosity that modulates from down-and-dirty realism to fractured fable to surreal and searing visions of madness.
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Compelling, incendiary concoctions . . . the kind of collection lesser writers yearn to create and readers long to return to. (Denise Gess - Philadelphia Inquirer )
DeMarinis is a contemporary avatar of that tradition in American short story writing that, by way of Hawthorne, Melville, Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty and Cheever, is essentially religious and, because rooted in the everyday, comic. . . . His art, then, is comedy of a very high order. (Russell Banks - New York Times Book Review )
These tales imply a chilly, brilliantly lit world on the brink of absolute darkness, chronicled with speedy, black-hearted élan. (Elizabeth Tallent - Los Angeles Times Book Review )
DeMarinis is a contemporary avatar of that tradition in American short story writing that, by way of Hawthorne, Melville, Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty and Cheever, is essentially religious and, because rooted in the everyday, comic. . . . His art, then, is comedy of a very high order. (Russell Banks - New York Times Book Review )
These tales imply a chilly, brilliantly lit world on the brink of absolute darkness, chronicled with speedy, black-hearted élan. (Elizabeth Tallent - Los Angeles Times Book Review )
About the Author
Rick DeMarinis is a novelist and short story writer. He has taught at the University of Montana, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review, and The Iowa Review.
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Every morning at 3 a.m. a dog would sit in front of our house and bark. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Miss Klein, Tom Banning, Jeff Granger, Thorne Granger, Roger Flexnor, Thomas Givings, Defense Industry, Art One Pipe, Barbara Sunderlin, Peg Munson, Doug Thurston, Jack the Ripper, Jerry Peters, Marianna Kensington, Randy Voss, Swift Premium, Apple of Peru, Carl Simpson, Lean Cuisine, Locust Airframes, Louis Quenon, Moley Gleeson, Roland Towne, Ronnie Powers, The Bar-None New!
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Every morning at 3 a.m. a dog would sit in front of our house and bark. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coming triumph, large beet, bed lamp Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Klein, Tom Banning, Jeff Granger, Thorne Granger, Roger Flexnor, Thomas Givings, Defense Industry, Art One Pipe, Barbara Sunderlin, Peg Munson, Doug Thurston, Jack the Ripper, Jerry Peters, Marianna Kensington, Randy Voss, Swift Premium, Apple of Peru, Carl Simpson, Lean Cuisine, Locust Airframes, Louis Quenon, Moley Gleeson, Roland Towne, Ronnie Powers, The Bar-None New!
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- Ruth Benedict (Leaders of Modern Anthropology) by Margaret Mead on page 42, and page 48
- Coming Triumph by Rick DeMarinis in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- My First Loves by Ivan Klima in Front Matter
- Good Morning by Henry Ford in Front Matter
- The Voice of America: Stories by Rick Demarinis in Back Matter
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- Mustang Sally: A Novel by Edward Allen in Back Matter
- The Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky in Front Matter
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