Daydreamers: Stories, by Jonathan Harper
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Ne'er-do-wells, prodigal sons, and young men without so much as a clue to their present state of mind let alone their futures are waiting to be met in the stories within Daydreamers, Jonathan Harper s debut collection. But these men are not Walter Mittys everyday life refuses to allow them languor. Whether it be the roll of the dice in a Dungeons & Dragons game played in a hostile, rural bar, the lure of body modification and being suspended in front of a crowd, or discovering a body on the beach, the rough edges of each young man cannot help but be noticed, even admired. And once a young man is admired, he needs to decide whether or not to awaken from his daydreams.
Daydreamers: Stories, by Jonathan Harper- Amazon Sales Rank: #1402437 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .38" w x 5.98" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 164 pages
Review ''Tenants who destroy your rental apartment, corpses that wash ashore, old men in strip bars, bullies, failed fathers, estranged lovers, and very lost young men negotiating relationships with older ones--welcome to the world of Jonathan Harper's Daydreamers, whose assured prose style is turned with deadly accuracy on the crummy, sinister, banality of life in contemporary America. Harper's collection brings to mind a movie of an Anne Tyler novel, if it were directed by David Lynch. There is some original sin at the center of these lost lives. But what is it exactly? Whatever the answer, Harper's stories get better as they accumulate, until they take on the weight of an original artist's vision.'' -- --Andrew Holleran''A catalog of suburbia's petty desolations and meditations on lost chances; Harper makes for a keen archivist of his characters' flawed, unfinished manifestos.'' --Genevieve Valentine, author of The Girls at the Kingfisher Club and Mechanique
About the Author Jonathan Harper graduated with his MFA in Creative Writing from American University. He adores writing in coffee shops. His short fiction has appeared in numerous online and print venues. He lives in Northern Virginia with his husband, has a fondness for Period Pieces and really-really loves games.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. None of the characters are perfect – they all have flaws By MadScientist Daydreamers is a collection of nine short stories set (mostly) in Northern Virginia (more specifically, in and around the town of Falls Church, just outside of DC). Each story is vastly different from the others, so it’s impossible to summarize them all at once. They’re told from a variety of POV characters, and cover a variety of situations from the relatively ordinary (a group of geeky friends taking a weekend trip to play games and reconnect; a couple having relationship issues while also dealing with a less than ideal tenant in their spare room) to the more unsusual (finding a human body washed up on the beach, the lecherous man seducing/stalking a male stripper). One common theme that recurs frequently is an unexpected ending. In many of the stories, in the last page or two Harper makes a (metaphorical) hard turn and either changes the direction of the story entirely, or reveals that it actually never had been going the direction you thought. In one or two cases, the story just ends rather abruptly, leaving the reader wondering what happens next.These stories all paint vivid pictures of the characters’ personalities and mentalities. None of the characters are perfect – they all have flaws. Sometimes you outright hate a character (there’s one character in particular, in the story No More Heroes, that I wanted to punch in the face repeatedly because he’s such a jackass) and sometimes you find yourself rooting for a character (like the unnamed narrator(s?) of Wallflowers). Some stories will make you uncomfortable (We Only Flinch When It Isn’t Necessary), and others might make you cringe (Nature), but all of them deftly explore facets of humanity
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Harper's stories are wonderful: full of riveting characters By Anne L. A truly exciting first collection. Harper's stories are wonderful: full of riveting characters, agonizing misunderstandings and sly humor. I could hardly put this down. Can't wait for his next book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Mastery on display By Cityofangels418 An impressive book of stories. Throughout the collection, the characters Harper constructs live with a sort of half-enmeshment. They are both native and defamiliarized to their respective tableaux. Could this be ambivalence? Written with less sophistication, perhaps it would have been--but ambivalence is too simple an emotional landscape for these stories. Often, though not always, the protagonists are confronted by impulses and environments that are haunted by repetition, by echoes of what they had been previously, in another time or another context.What strikes me about Harper's collection is the sudden emotional correctness of the twists and turns that result of this careful balancing act in both the active and emotional plotlines of the various protagonists. They learn, at times, how unexpectedly alien it feels to realize the impossibility of "going home again," or the bizarre ease of doing so. Invariably, I found following the path to these moments rewarding, and delightful, and perhaps most importantly, unexpected..In summary: highly-recommended reading. I'm looking forward to the next offering from this author.
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