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A triptych of nine darkly comic stories, Omicron Ceti III opens a window onto the margins of American middle class intelligentsia. A high school English teacher rumored to be an undercover agent for the FBI, an international investment banker driven to extremes in his quest for a culinary soul mate, and an orthodontist's son obsessed by the number three are a few typical characters in this innovative, literate, and sometimes disturbing collection. Balazs, a writer once described as 'the unlikely lovechild of Vonnegut, Nabokov, and Telly Savalas,' incorporates drawings, lists, and allusions ranging from Star Trek to Middlemarch, testing the boundaries between high and low, comedy and pathos, light and dark.
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About the Author:
THOMAS P. BALĂ ZS teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including The North American Review, Soundings East, and The Southern Humanities Review. His work has also appeared in The Vermont College 25 Anniversary Fiction Anthology and Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology 2004. Recipient of the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for best short fiction 2010, his stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and the AWP Intro Journals Project Award.
Review:
Thomas Balázs displays a deep appreciation for both sexual and intellectual obsession, for how a person's private life of fantasy and fandom can imbue his surroundings with a thrillingly individual significance while also leaving him depressed and isolated.--The Weekly Standard
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- PublisherAqueous Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0984739904
- ISBN 13 9780984739905
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages258
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