| Author: | Anne-Marie Kinney | ISBN: | 9781937512040 |
| Publisher: | Two Dollar Radio | Publication: | May 15, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Two Dollar Radio | Language: | English |
| Author: | Anne-Marie Kinney |
| ISBN: | 9781937512040 |
| Publisher: | Two Dollar Radio |
| Publication: | May 15, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Two Dollar Radio |
| Language: | English |
"Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant."
-Deb Olin Unferth, The New York Times Book Review
"A noirish nod to the monotony of work."
-O: The Oprah Magazine
"Kinney is a Southern California Camus."
-Los Angeles Magazine
"'The Office' as scripted by Kafka."
-Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"[An] astute evocation of office weirdness and malaise."
-The Wall Street Journal
Radio Iris follows Iris Finch, a twentysomething socially awkward daydreamer and receptionist at Larmax, Inc., a company whose true function she doesn’t understand (though she’s heard her boss refer to himself as a businessman”).
Gradually, her boss’ erratic behavior becomes even more erratic, her coworkers begin disappearing, the phone stops ringing, making her role at Larmax moot, and a mysterious man appears to be living in the office suite next door.
Radio Iris is an ambient, eerie dream of a novel, written with remarkable precision and grace that could also serve as an appropriate allegory for our modern recession.
Anne-Marie Kinney’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Black Clock, Keyhole, and Satellite Fiction.
"Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant."
-Deb Olin Unferth, The New York Times Book Review
"A noirish nod to the monotony of work."
-O: The Oprah Magazine
"Kinney is a Southern California Camus."
-Los Angeles Magazine
"'The Office' as scripted by Kafka."
-Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"[An] astute evocation of office weirdness and malaise."
-The Wall Street Journal
Radio Iris follows Iris Finch, a twentysomething socially awkward daydreamer and receptionist at Larmax, Inc., a company whose true function she doesn’t understand (though she’s heard her boss refer to himself as a businessman”).
Gradually, her boss’ erratic behavior becomes even more erratic, her coworkers begin disappearing, the phone stops ringing, making her role at Larmax moot, and a mysterious man appears to be living in the office suite next door.
Radio Iris is an ambient, eerie dream of a novel, written with remarkable precision and grace that could also serve as an appropriate allegory for our modern recession.
Anne-Marie Kinney’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Black Clock, Keyhole, and Satellite Fiction.
