Pieces for the Left Hand
Stories
J. Robert Lennon
- Finally
- available
- in
- the
- United
- States,
- a
- singular
- story
- collection
- that
- Time
- Out
- declared
- "unsettlingly
- brilliant"Astudent's
- suicide
- note
- is
- not
- what
- it
- seems.
- A
- high
- school
- football
- rivalry
- turns
- absurd—and
- deadly.
- A
- much-loved
- cat
- seems
- to
- have
- been
- a
- different
- animal
- all
- along.
- A
- pair
- of
- identical
- twins
- aren't
- identical
- at
- all—or
- even
- related.
- A
- man
- finds
- his
- own
- yellowed
- birth
- announcement
- inside
- a
- bureau
- bought
- at
- auction.
- Set
- in
- a
- small
- upstate
- New
- York
- town,
- told
- in
- a
- conversational
- style,
- Pieces
- for
- the
- Left
- Hand
- is
- a
- stream
- of
- a
- hundred
- anecdotes,
- none
- much
- longer
- than
- a
- page.
- At
- once
- funny,
- bizarre,
- familiar,
- and
- disturbing,
- these
- deceptively
- straightforward
- tales
- nevertheless
- shock
- and
- amaze
- through
- uncanny
- coincidence,
- tragic
- misunderstanding,
- strange
- occurrence,
- or
- sudden
- insight.
- Unposted
- letters,
- unexpected
- visitors,
- false
- memories—in
- J.
- Robert
- Lennon's
- vision
- of
- America,
- these
- are
- the
- things
- that
- decide
- our
- fate.
- Wry
- and
- deadpan,
- powerful
- and
- philosophical,
- these
- addictive
- little
- tales
- reveal
- the
- everyday
- world
- as
- a
- strange
- and
- eerie place.
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