Oral History of Atlantis: Stories

Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

"Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane."--Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

In "Machine City" a college student's chance role in a friend's movie blurs the line between his character and his true self. (Is he a robot?) In "Slide to Unlock" a man comes to terms with his life via the passwords he struggles to remember in extremis. (What's his mom's name backward?) And in "Weird Menace" a director and faded movie star gab about science fiction, bad costume choices, and lost loves on a commentary track for a B-film from the '80s that neither remembers all that well.

In Ed Park's utterly original collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, characters bemoan their fleeting youth, focus on their breathing, meet cute, break up, write book reviews, translate ancient glyphs, bid on stuff online, whale watch, and once in a while find solace in the sublime. Throughout, Park deploys his trademark wit to create a world both strikingly recognizable and delightfully other. Spanning a quarter century, these sixteen stories tell the absurd truth about our lives. They capture the moment when the present becomes the past--and are proof positive that Ed Park is one of the most imaginative and insightful writers working today.

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