The Bed Moved The Bed Moved

The Bed Moved

Stories

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Publisher Description

The audacious, savagely funny debut of a writer of razor-sharp wit and surprising tenderness: a collection of stories that gives us a fresh take on adolescence, death, sex; on being Jewish-ish; and on finding one’s way as a young woman in the world.

A New Yorker, trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cash-strapped pot grower to a “clothing optional resort” in California. A nerdy high-schooler has her first sexual experience at Geology Camp. A college student, on the night of her father’s funeral, watches a video of her bat mitzvah, hypnotized by the image of the girl she used to be . . .

Frank and irreverent, Rebecca Schiff’s stories offer a singular view of growing up (or not) and finding love (or not) in today’s ever-uncertain landscape. In its bone-dry humor, its pithy observations, and its thrilling ability to unmask the most revealing moments of human interaction—no matter how fleeting—The Bed Moved announces a new talent to be reckoned with.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
April 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
160
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
7.9
MB

Customer Reviews

phibetakitty ,

Not what I hoped for

Reading the review of "The Bed Moved" in the New York Times, I laughed out loud at three different excerpts. Based on that, I was really looking forward to this book! Unfortunately I found the book was written in a coy, metafiction, sort of modernistic style. I like good old fashioned story-telling prose. I found the style irritating enough to make me lose interest in reading the book at all. I think younger, smarter folks will like her, those who enjoy in-joke wordplay that constantly draws attention to itself.

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