Flings, Justin Taylor
Flings, Justin Taylor
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Flings
Stories

Author: Justin Taylor

Narrator: Justin Taylor

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2014

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures the lives of men and women unmoored from their pasts and uncertain of their futures. A man writes his girlfriend a Dear John letter, gets in his car, and just drives. A widowed insomniac is roused from malaise when an alligator appears in her backyard. A group of college friends try to stay close after graduation, but are drawn away from - and back toward -each other by the choices they make. A boy's friendship with a pair of identical twins undergoes a strange and tragic evolution over the course of adolescence. A promising academic and her fiancee attempt to finish their dissertations, but struggle with writer's block, a nasty secret, and their own expert knowledge of Freud.

About Justin Taylor

Justin Taylor edited the acclaimed short fiction anthology The Apocalypse Reader, and is the author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever, a New York Times Editors' Choice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on July 29, 2015

A new name for me and another to add to my growing list of good ones. If you like the comedy show Girls you won’t need much introduction to these stories. There’s not as much “aggressive nudity” (love that phrase, as it’s regularly applied to Lena Dunham) and they aren’t as actually funny as Girls b......more

Goodreads review by Becky on February 05, 2016

People young and old face all kinds of choices. Decisions that will affect their lives not only immediately but just as much further down the line. Friends newly graduated and deciding what to do next; a couple about to get married and facing down secrets from their past; a divorced father spending......more

Goodreads review by cassie joy on June 26, 2024

really struck me. but subtly? usually with short story collections i get bored between stories or only love a select few, but this one really captivated me the entire time......more

Goodreads review by Nick on June 10, 2014

Rachel's galley. I'm waiting til closer to pub date to quote multiple paragraphs on Tumblr.......more

Goodreads review by Marvin on December 14, 2018

Collection of stories centered mostly around young-ish people, teenagers and young adults dealing with the discomfort of trauma or sexuality and entering the post-college world. Many of these stories--particularly those like the title story and "After Ellen," which follow a group of friends and thei......more

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