{"product_id":"proper-imposters-four-novellas-paperback","title":"Proper Imposters: Four Novellas - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChaya Bhuvaneswar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMauricio Montiel Figueiras\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJason Ockert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDistributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of \u003cbr\u003ePanhandler Books, an imprint of the Department of English and World \u003cbr\u003eLanguages at the University of West Florida \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eProper Imposters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e four contemporary authors explore the vices and virtues of deception \u003cbr\u003eand how it manifests in ways personal, psychological, propulsive, and \u003cbr\u003eprofound. An accountant at a pencil manufacturing company investigates a\u003cbr\u003e series of ominous events behind the facade of the mysterious company \u003cbr\u003ewhere he works; from their deathbeds, fictionalized versions of Nikolai \u003cbr\u003eGogol and Edgar Allen Poe look back on their lives and remember an epic, \u003cbr\u003e transformational, and ahistorical road trip they took together as young\u003cbr\u003e men; a young woman is startled into action trying to execute \"a simple \u003cbr\u003eplan\" of escape involving cash, a sleep-over by her college roommate and\u003cbr\u003e the bold seduction of a boy she has decided to lose her virginity to; \u003cbr\u003eand, a reclusive night-shift worker tries a daring weight-loss \u003cbr\u003eexperiment only to find himself pursued by a stalker no one else can \u003cbr\u003esee. Montiel Figueiras, Parker, Bhuvaneswar, and Ockert are devotees and\u003cbr\u003e virtuosos of the form, and each novella is lyrically rich in its prose \u003cbr\u003eand swift in its plotting. Together, the novellas startle with the \u003cbr\u003econsequences of seeing and being seen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChaya Bhuvaneswar \u003c\/strong\u003eis a practicing physician, writer, and PEN \/American Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction award finalist for her story collection \u003cem\u003eWhite Dancing Elephants: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best\u003cbr\u003e Short Story Collection and appeared on \"best of\" lists for \u003cem\u003eHarper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue India, and Entertainment Weekly. \u003c\/em\u003eHer work has appeared in\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The New York Times, Salon, The Sun, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, \u003cbr\u003eElectric Literature, Kenyon Review, Masters Review, The Millions, \u003cbr\u003eJoyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Community of Writers, and Sewanee Writers Workshop. \u003cstrong\u003eMauricio Montiel Figueiras\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer of prose fiction\u003cbr\u003e and essays, as well as a poet, translator, editor, and film and \u003cbr\u003eliterary critic. He is the author of fifteen books in different genres. \u003cbr\u003eHis work has been published in magazines and newspapers in Argentina, \u003cbr\u003eBrazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, \u003cbr\u003e and the United States. He has been Resident Writer for the Cheltenham \u003cbr\u003eFestival of Literature in England (2003) and The Bellagio Study and \u003cbr\u003eConference Center in Italy (2008). In 2012 he was appointed Resident \u003cbr\u003eWriter for the prestigious Hawthornden Retreat for Writers in Scotland. \u003cbr\u003eIn 2020 he was selected artist in residence for the Saari Residence in \u003cbr\u003eFinland. Since 1995 he lives and works in Mexico City. \u003cstrong\u003eJason Ockert\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eWasp Box\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel, and three collections of short stories: \u003cem\u003eShadowselves, Neighbors of Nothing, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eRabbit Punches\u003c\/em\u003e. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly \u003c\/em\u003eFiction\u003cbr\u003e Contest, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, he was also a finalist \u003cbr\u003efor the Shirley Jackson Award and the Million Writers Award. His work \u003cbr\u003ehas appeared in journals and anthologies including \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories, Granta, The Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, One Story, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/em\u003e. He teaches at Coastal Carolina University. \u003cstrong\u003eJeff Parker\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of several books including \u003cem\u003eWhere Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, the novel \u003cem\u003eOvenman\u003c\/em\u003e, and the short story collection \u003cem\u003eThe Taste of Penny\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e He teaches prose in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts \u003cbr\u003eAmherst, and he is the co-founder and director of the DISQUIET \u003cbr\u003eInternational Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43778971205695,"sku":"9780991640485","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/proper-imposters-four-novellas-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}