I Like Being Killed Stories Author:Tibor Fischer Tibor Fischer has been called "a Joseph Conrad with jokes" (The Sunday Times, London). Now he earns the title again with a story collection that ranges from the blackest, high-voltage humor to sober and moving pessimism about the sorry condition of humans at the new millennium. Here are those left behind by the vacuous nineties: a failed softw... more »are designer who cannot connect with others, a failed artist, a failed cowboy, a failed solicitor-seducer, a bookseller primed for failure as he tries to read every book in the world, and a venomous stand-up comedienne who has fallen from grace. From London to the French Riviera, from Hamburg to Romania, in the new Europe only the ruthless succeed: the weak are cowed by the strong, the rich fleece the poor, and the ugly is bested by the surgically enhanced. Reveling in the absurdities of his characters' predicaments, Fischer rescues them from a relentlessly dark fate. Laced with exuberant narrative and matchless comic invention, I Like Being Killed reveals the struggle to make sense of our twenty-first-century world.« less
ISBN-13: 9780805066012 ISBN-10: 0805066012 Publication Date: 9/12/2000 Pages:261 Edition:1st American ed Rating: