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Empty Rooms Lonely Countries [Paperback]

Christian A. Dumais (Author)
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January 14, 2009
EMPTY ROOMS LONELY COUNTRIES collects a decade's worth of short stories, wandering through two continents, five countries and multiple universes to explore love, loss and redemption in the 21st century.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 258 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace (January 14, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1440490880
  • ISBN-13: 978-1440490880
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,568,563 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Drunk Hulk started on Twitter in October 2009 and has since become an internet sensation with over 131,000 followers. Drunk Hulk has been featured in various print and online publications like Time, Huffington Post, NPR, BuzzFeed, MTV and more.

The response to Drunk Hulk has been overwhelming. In this day and age of uncertainty, there's something about the directness and absurdity of Drunk Hulk that resonates so positively with readers. Drunk Hulk is consistently the one of the most retweeted satirical Twitter accounts. And while he has gone on to inspire several other Hulk accounts on Twitter, Drunk Hulk continues to be the most successful.

The creator behind the Drunk Hulk is writer Christian A. Dumais, who Boing Boing says "is one of the three or four people who make it seem possible that Twitter can spawn something like art."

Christian is an American writer and university lecturer living in Wrocław, Poland. He has published fiction, journalism, and academic articles in several magazines and journals, with recent pieces published in GUD, Shock Totem and Ha!Art. His first collection of short stories, Empty Rooms Lonely Countries, was published in 2009. In 2010, he created, edited, and contributed to Cover Stories, a euphictional anthology of 100 stories inspired by songs.

He is currently working on his next novel.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the top 5 books I've read this year, and I read a lot of books., September 22, 2009
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Five stars, because there simply isn't a page in this book that doesn't have something I enjoyed, and that includes the About the Author page (seriously).

This book is full of true events told through fiction, it's a novel told in short stories. The protagonist, the author's fictional avatar, engages in a dreamlike but nonetheless relentless search for love - something that in the context of this book is both all-pervasive and frustratingly elusive. The language is simple, the stories go down like cool water, but the implications and ideas linger like both fine and bargain wines.

And this is appropriate, because alcohol soaks this book clear through, leaving you at the end like you've awoken from a deep night of heavy drinking... What country am I in today? Did I really say those things? Where are my pants? Did she really kiss me?...

Beautiful, evocative work by a serious young writer.

Next book, please, Mr. Dumais.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent anthology, December 7, 2010
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This is an excellent anthology, with stories that range from thought-provoking to hilarious, from beautiful to heart-breaking. The stories resonate. They are things that happen to us all, inside.

The author really lays himself bare in the stories, telling his tales in an open manner, no matter how painful or embarrassing, no matter how complicated. From his heart being broken to having to ferry his brother home in a trunk, from fairy-tale and horror-story remembrances of the past to being confronted with his fear of needles, the stories will all leave you with something to think about, some essential truth.

Highly recommended.
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