Kayfabe Other Stories edition by Saul Lemerond Literature Fiction eBooks
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In the stories of Kayfabe, darkly comic worlds collide, putting obstinate and outrageous and always fragile characters into impossible situations. Saul Lemerond writes with gusto, in a voice all his own unpretentious, smart, hilarious, and original. In Lemerond’s universe, rainbow factories sludge the lungs of child laborers, a cue ball sounds a siren’s call, and your mother might become your lover. Blink it’s a snowy field. Blink again it’s an Emerson-quoting dinosaur. Like the best work of cultural satirists Kurt Vonnegut and Chris Bachelder, these apocalyptic and surreal stories ultimately prefer hope to cynicism, laughter to tears.
Kayfabe Other Stories edition by Saul Lemerond Literature Fiction eBooks
Mr. Lemerond's ability to write beautifully is well demonstrated in this collection of stories. Very quickly do Saul's stories develop into wonderfully interesting worlds populated by intriguing characters. This book is a pleasure to read and I particularly loved Cowboys in Rainbow City.Product details
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Kayfabe Other Stories edition by Saul Lemerond Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Lemerond's dark humor and absurdist tales will make you feel like you've been knocked in the head with a folding chair, but in a most delightful way. The collection's main story features a pro-wrestler who grapples with reality (sort of a Rocky Balboa in Rocky V type) and his struggles to differentiate his wrestling persona from his real-life identity. While the surface premise of "Kayfabe" is humorous, the story offers smart social commentary on wrestling fans--or any group of ardent media consumers, for that matter--and their inability to separate reality from the sensational. In a story entitled "Fake Barry," Lemerond examines the nature of identity and the lines between the real and artificial through a telemarketer who engages in an Oedipal-seeming relationship with a woman who looks like his mother. Yes, this collection has a little bit of everything, and it's bound to keep you laughing and thinking.
Lemerond's writing is crisp, hilarious, jarring, and authentic. Moving effortlessly and subtly between the absurd and surreal, Lemerond's stories probe the contradictions that are at the heart of being human (with the focus of a behavioral psychologist on a postmodern diet consisting only of LSD and scotch). Case in point "Cowboys in Rainbow City" paints a vivid and strange world where reality television dominates life and polarizes Rainbow City to the point of civil war, while simultaneously blinding all to the atrocity occurring in front of their eyes. While this is entertaining in and of itself what makes this story even more pleasing is the fact that in no way is the text didactic; moral instruction and snide judgments are left for the reader to make as the author is content building a beautifully ugly world where the hilarious and bizarre occur and entertain. Kayfabe and Other Stories is a must read.
Great things come in sixes, like a half dozen doughnuts or a pack of premium hotdogs. Thus, also does the long awaited story collection "Kayfabe & Other Stories" by Saul Lemerond.
This slim collection may be light on pages, but it outweighs many books thrice its size, were one able to measure humor and emotions. Each one of the concisely told tales shines a D powered flashlight into a dark hole in your mind you may not have known existed. Beware.
The stories run from chillingly sub-real to absolutely absurd, Yet, no matter what end of the spectrum Lemorond swings his satirical needle, they all remain painfully poignant.
A rainbow city powered by alcoholic children thrown off kilter by a parade of happy twerking kittens. Why not?
A man replaced by a crocodile that he worked hard to purchase, left with only a pig as a friend. Of course!
A wintery delusion that spawns a T-Rex as a philosophical playmate. Yes, please!
Though all of the stories prove their mettle, the one that made me feel as though a chicken bone had been lodged in my heart was "Kayfabe", the namesake of the collection. I don't even eat meat.
This dark jewel of a tale puts Lemerond's work floating somewhere between the darkness of Kafka's most twisted fever-dream and the moment when Vonnegut gave up on humanity. Both of these points are transient, as is this book. There is not a single time you will feel your feet firmly planted while you read it, and this is a good thing. This isn't a simple read, it is a Trip.
My one complaint is that the trip wasn't longer.
It's one of those books that, describing it to your friends, no matter how admirably you try or how much you enjoyed the collection, does it no justice. From topics of incest and the vanity of social status, mixed with elements like a sexual cue ball, freak dancing kittens, and a corporate shill too good to lick his own Colorado River toad (for the richly psychoactive effects, of course) -- not to mention a wife who wines and dines her new pet crocodile more than she ever did her own husband, what results are six fantastic stories of characters so desperate you can't help but laugh at them as you cringe at their despair. And yet, below the dark, the perverse, and the stupefying components are richly complex layers of emotion. With tangential rubs of allegory (kids working in a rainbow factory that affects their health?) and social commentary (the one-upmanship of executives who simply do not appreciate the reptiles they whimsically purchase), "Kayfabe" delivers the unexpectedly welcome, wrapped tightly in harmonious prose and unique voices, producing a quick yet enjoyable collection of stories.
Lemerond's mastery of making the surreal ordinary in "Kayfabe & Other Stories" is immediately apparent and pervades throughout this excellent collection. There exists a consistent undertone of sadness throughout these stories, something so obvious yet subtle that it becomes brilliantly disorienting amid Lemerond's clear preference toward wit and humor; one cannot read his stories without questioning whether to laugh or cry. Lemerond tackles complex postmodern themes in unique and interesting ways, though never obtrusive, blurring the idea between a copy and its original, the perceived and experienced truth, questioning which piece of "reality" makes something real. Much of the power of Lemerond's writing, as with the work of any good author, is found between the lines where the magic happens, and it never once disappoints.
Saul Lemerond's brand of satire is as dark as it is imaginative and as funny as it is irreverent. Kayfabe & Other Stories is a wonderful introduction to a rather unique talent. Should there in fact be any justice in the world, Lemerond's collection will become the first of many subsequent works.
Mr. Lemerond's ability to write beautifully is well demonstrated in this collection of stories. Very quickly do Saul's stories develop into wonderfully interesting worlds populated by intriguing characters. This book is a pleasure to read and I particularly loved Cowboys in Rainbow City.
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