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Hoopty Time Machines

HOOPTY TIME MACHINES: fairy tales for grown ups is a collection of forty-five fantastical stories filled with peculiar journeys and wild awakenings, with fairytale heroines, introspective superheroes, and a whole menagerie of monsters — each one deeply human, and a little bit heartbreaking.

One of the "most anticipated small press books of 2016" (John Madera, Big Other).

REVIEWS:

"Funny and devastating." — Jennifer Messner, Books, Personally

"The literary equivalent of a perfect mix tape... There are doorstop novels out there that fail to achieve the emotional impact DeWan can generate with a single honest, well-crafted sentence." — Laura Garrison, Jersey Devil Press

"Imaginative and terrifying.... Be warned, reader, there is danger here, and you will certainly welcome it." — The Wild Hunt

ADVANCE PRAISE:

"There are hints of Barthelme, Vonnegut, and Calvino to be found here, but make no mistake: DeWan is something gloriously new." — Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters

"Like Barry Yourgrau went on tour with sad, lyrical stand-up routines — funny, sharp, playful zingers of stories that reach right out to grab a reader." — Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

"Hoopty Time Machines is much like a bag of M&M's, in that it's nearly impossible, once you've opened it, not to consume it down to the last morsel, and fast. It is less like a bag of M&M's in that you never know what you'll find beneath the candy coating: a peanut or an amphetamine, a rosary bead or a thumbtack." — Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Illumination

"Christopher DeWan's Hoopty Time Machines is that rare story collection that is both a total blast to read and a complete philosophical package. These abrupt, funny, vigorous stories — involving urban legends, minotaurs, little mermaids, chupacabras, and changelings — contain in their brevity vast depth and import. These are stories to read, reread, and perennially enjoy." — Sharma Shields, author of The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac

"An absolute delight from the first page to the last: it's like that scene in Singin' in the Rain, only with ideas instead of puddles." — Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

"Sometimes funny, often tragic, usually bizarre, and always interesting." — Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 133
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780991546961
  • Genres
  • fantasy
  • Release date
  • 2016