Ebook {Epub PDF} Good People by Robert Lopez

 · In Robert Lopez’s collection of short stories, Good People, the narrators are affected by malaise so paralyzing that it has become a terminal condition. There is the sense that they are no longer participants in daily living and they have been institutionalized, ostracized, . To this, we add: nothing is funnier than unhappiness with a heavy dose of amorality, as we learn from Robert Lopez’s unforgettable Good People. In these twenty stories, a motley cast of obsessive, self-deluded outsiders narrate their darker moments, which include kidnapping, voyeurism, and psychic masochism. As their struggles give way to the black humor of life’s unreason, the bleak merges with . Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, and two story collections, Asunder and Good People (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press). Among other places, his fiction has appeared in the American Reader, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Hobart, Indiana Review, Literarian, Nerve, New York Tyrant, Vice, and the Norton anthology Sudden Fiction Latino/5(14).

Robert Lopez Bellevue Literary Press () Softcover $ A dizzying, disturbing tour of what might be going on in the minds of "good people," Robert Lopez's collection of twenty previously published stories breaks open his characters' delusional, self-justified personas to reveal an inner landscape that's dark, obsessive, amoral, and often sadistic. www.doorway.ru: Good People () by Lopez, Robert and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. To this, we add: nothing is funnier than unhappiness with a heavy dose of amorality, as we learn from Robert Lopez's unforgettable Good People. In these twenty stories, a motley cast of obsessive, self-deluded outsiders narrate their darker moments, which include kidnapping, voyeurism, and psychic masochism.

Good People. Robert Lopez. Bellevue Literary (Consortium, dist.), $ trade paper (p) ISBN Personalities ranging from the amusingly neurotic to the borderline psychotic. Good People. “One of Lopez’s many gifts is being able to make accessible, through humor and wit, what might otherwise frighten us. Good People makes us question our own ideas about morality and the weight of our thoughts and actions, all the while entertaining us with the plights of others.”. —. In Robert Lopez’s collection of short stories, Good People, the narrators are affected by malaise so paralyzing that it has become a terminal condition. There is the sense that they are no longer participants in daily living and they have been institutionalized, ostracized, or otherwise confined in solitude.