The Great Indoorsman
Essays
Seiten
2022
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3051-5 (ISBN)
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3051-5 (ISBN)
In these deeply funny and introspective essays, Andrew Farkas boldly surveys the “in-of-doors,” where a higher degree of comfort can be found than out-of-doors, and discovers that our lives are controlled much more by fiction than by anything “real.”
Foreword INDIES Gold Winner in Humor
Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn’t for him. Instead, in these essays Farkas reports on his bold explorations of a very different territory: the in-of-doors, the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a higher degree of comfort than can be found outside.
Farkas discovers that, just as the mannered and wonderfully (gloriously) artificial indoors influences us greatly, our lives are also controlled much more by fiction than by anything “real.” So come in out of the weather (it’s always terrible) and join the Great Indoorsman on his adventures, where he makes fun of pretty much everything, most of all himself.
Foreword INDIES Gold Winner in Humor
Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn’t for him. Instead, in these essays Farkas reports on his bold explorations of a very different territory: the in-of-doors, the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a higher degree of comfort than can be found outside.
Farkas discovers that, just as the mannered and wonderfully (gloriously) artificial indoors influences us greatly, our lives are also controlled much more by fiction than by anything “real.” So come in out of the weather (it’s always terrible) and join the Great Indoorsman on his adventures, where he makes fun of pretty much everything, most of all himself.
Andrew Farkas is an assistant professor of English at Washburn University. He is the author of The Big Red Herring, Sunsphere, and Self-Titled Debut.
The Great Indoorsman
Wait Here?
A Filk Tale
Pool Hall Legend
Somewhere Better Than This Place
A Front or Affront
Kitchen Sink Realism
Time Stands Still When You’re Havin’ Fun
On Drinking the Kool-Aid in a Coffeehouse
Still Life with Alarm Clocks
Everything You Were Looking For
An Essay About Nothing
When Hamburger Station Is Busy
Last Year at Chapel Hill Mall
Bowl-a-Rama
Noir Girl
Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.01.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3051-5 / 1496230515 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3051-5 / 9781496230515 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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