White Dialogues

By Bennett Sims

Book Overview

*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year --Bookforum

Synopsis
With all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, A Questionable Shape, Bennett Sims returns with an equally ambitious and wide-ranging collection of stories.

A house-sitter alone in a cabin in the woods comes to suspect that the cabin may need to be "unghosted." A raconteur watches as his personal story is rewritten on an episode of This American Life. And in the collection's title story, a Hitchcock scholar sitting in on a Vertigo lecture is gradually driven mad by his own theory of cinema.

In these eleven stories, Sims moves from slow-burn psychological horror to playful comedy, bringing us into the minds of people who are haunted by their environments, obsessions, and doubts. Told in electric, insightful prose, White Dialogues is a profound exploration of the way we uncover meaning in a complex, and sometimes terrifying, world. It showcases Sims's rare talent and confirms his reputation as one of the most exciting young writers at work today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937512630
• ISBN13: 9781937512637
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 15 years and up