Monday, May 1, 2017

THE BABYSITTER AT REST, Jen George's wowee-toledo! debut collection



THE BABYSITTER AT REST
JEN GEORGE

Dorothy, a publishing project
$16 trade paper, available now

Rating: 4.75* of five

The Publisher Says: Five stories—several as long as novellas—introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In “Guidance/The Party,” an ethereal alcoholic “Guide” in robes and flowing hair appears to help a thirty-three-year-old woman prepare a party for her belated adulthood; “Take Care of Me Forever” tragically lambasts the medical profession as a ship of fools afloat in loneliness and narcissism; “Instruction” chronicles a season in an unconventional art school called The Warehouse, where students divide their time between orgies, art critiques, and burying dead racehorses. Combining slapstick, surrealism, erotica, and social criticism, Jen George’s sprawling creative energy belies the secret precision and unexpected tenderness of everything she writes.

My Review: Each story, in my accustomed manner, will be discussed individually and assinged a rating in what I call the Bryce Method after my old Goodreads friend "Seak."

Guidance/The Party

The Babysitter at Rest

Take Care of Me Forever

Futures in Child Rearing

Instruction

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