{"product_id":"red-pyramid-selected-stories-9781681378206","title":"Red Pyramid: Selected Stories","description":"Extended comic turns like \u003ci\u003eThe Queue\u003c\/i\u003e and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like \u003ci\u003eIce Trilogy \u003c\/i\u003ehave established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorokin's short fiction, however, that readers must turn to encounter the wildest and most unsettling of his inventions and provocations. Sorokin is a virtuoso of parody and pastiche, as well as a poet of the black sites where the human soul stands exposed to its own incontinent desires, and \u003ci\u003eRed Pyramid\u003c\/i\u003e spans the whole of his career, from his emergence in the Soviet Union as a member of Moscow's artistic underground to his late preeminence as an observer and interpreter of the Putin era, with its squalid parade of gruesome folly and unhinged violence. Included here are queasy tour-de-forces, like the early \"Obelisk,\" a story as scatological as it is conceptual; the notorious \"A Month in Dachau,\" which earned Sorokin his sobriquet as the Russian Sade; and profoundly unsettling texts like \"Tiny Tim,\" where tenderness is inseparable from horror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSorokin's stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e. This is the first time they have been collected in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vladimir Sorokin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.7lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378206","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707045679241,"sku":"9781681378206","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_74f81fb0-9054-462b-baeb-2f2655e0bbae.jpg?v=1719476768","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/red-pyramid-selected-stories-9781681378206","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}