Radio Iris - by Anne-Marie Kinney (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Radio Iris</i> deals with watercooler culture in an artful and existential way, delivering an eerie allegory of our modern recession.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Radio Iris</i> has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant.<br>--Deb Olin Unferth, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>A noirish nod to the monotony of work.<br>--<i>O: The Oprah Magazine</i> <p/>Kinney is a Southern California Camus.<br>--<i>Los Angeles Magazine</i> <p/>'The Office' as scripted by Kafka.<br>--<i>Minneapolis Star-Tribune</i> <p/>[An] astute evocation of office weirdness and malaise.<br>--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></p><p><i>Radio Iris</i> follows Iris Finch, a twentysomething socially awkward daydreamer and receptionist at Larmax, Inc., a company whose true function she doesn't understand (though she's heard her boss refer to himself as "a businessman").</p><p>Gradually, her boss' erratic behavior becomes even more erratic, her coworkers begin disappearing, the phone stops ringing, making her role at Larmax moot, and a mysterious man appears to be living in the office suite next door.</p><p><i>Radio Iris </i>is an ambient, eerie dream of a novel, written with remarkable precision and grace that could also serve as an appropriate allegory for our modern recession.</p><p><b>Anne-Marie Kinney</b>'s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Indiana Review</i>, <i>Black Clock</i>, <i>Keyhole</i>, and <i>Satellite Fiction</i>.</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Anne-Marie Kinney: Anne-Marie Kinney has been published in Black Clock, Indiana Review, and Keyhole, and performed at L.A.'s Word Theatre. Radio Iris is her first novel.<br>
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