I Made This Just for You (Paperback)
Chris Ames
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Add to basketSold by Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
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Add to basketPaperback. A never-ending press junket. An island made of plastic. A doppelgaenger made of shower hair. A basement full of replacement fathers. The characters in I Made This Just for You are perfect avatars of modern life. They work in tech, take designer drugs, assemble IKEA furniture, pursue beauty matching, and rehabilitate their reputationsall while grappling with a perilous sense of unease, held hostage by economic forces beyond their control.I Made This Just for You lives in weird and flirts with normal. The stories explore the tension between authenticity and performance, as characters navigate the anxieties of modern parenthood, the disorienting nature of loss and memory, and the absurd, often dystopian, intersection of the digital and the real.This savage, sideways collection asks: How do we measure the distance between two people? How can we thrive within our own ceaseless routines? And how are we still drawn together, in spite of our messy, broken ways of knowing?PRAISE FOR I MADE THIS JUST FOR YOUChris Ames fearlessly stares into the uncanny abyss of the hyperreal, creating ultra contemporary tales of terror, satire and digital anxiety. This collection is a mind-bending, timely and empathetic reminder that we have to endure, no matter how many skies have fallen. Chris Flynn, author of Orpheus Nine'Ames reaches beyond satire by writing characters whose nightmares are made flesh.' Saturday PaperFrom corporate drudgery to online hellscapes, Chris Ames writes cleverly and elegantly about the excruciating performance of self. Often surreal, sometimes painful and always brilliant in its examination of a culturally bankrupt age, I loved every page. Sinead Stubbins, author of StinkbugFunny, sad and searching, I Made This Just for You has everything you want from a short story collection. Chris Ames is a champion of the form. Briohny Doyle, author of Why We Are HereA glorious collection that teems with the strange artefacts and anxieties of our time. It's a digital-drunk wonderland of stories where dreams become nightmares before you've realised it. A dazzling, kaleidoscopic collection that surprised and delighted me on every page. Rhett Davis, author of ArborescenceI Made This Just for You is a searing look at the banality of modern life, but with a pulsing optimism at its core. Chris Ames blisteringly funny critique exfoliates what is still beautiful and true in humanity. Avery Trufelman, podcaster on 99% Invisiblesmart, funny, uncomfortable and thought provoking Victorian Premiers Literary AwardsThe stories of I Made This Just for You are wildly inventive and rollicking. Id follow Chris Ames anywhere. Rita Bullwinkel, author of HeadshotThe experience of reading I Made This Just for You is an immersive one: you laugh, you become anxious, and, if youre another writer, you also become envious because the author, Chris Ames, is just so talented. As you turn every page you find yourself thinking, Oh, I wish I could do that! Sophie Cunningham, author of This Devastating FeverHilarious, profound and brilliantly deranged, I Made This Just for You responds to the exponential absurdity of this moment by meeting it with equal force. Josephine Rowe, author of Little WorldI feel like Chris Ames has been inside my head, but I dont know how he got in there. Somehow he knows things I thought only I knew. This book is so swift and funny andfor all its sad, ludicrous perversitycompletely charming. Miles Allinson, author of In Moonland Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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