Review: Dancer on the Ceiling by Mark Nutter
A gleefully bizarre collection of stories, Dancer on the Ceiling: More Darkly Humorous Tales by Mark Nutter is an unforgettable work of absurdist fiction that will have you scratching your head and laughing in equal measure. Abandoning the normal boundaries of narrative structure, character consistency, or reality itself, this is tongue-in-cheek writing at its best.
There are stories of divinely gifted carpet artists, a massage master who can coax life back into a severed limb, a casino fat cat who markets to children, and a size-obsessed billboard baron, just to name a few of the oddities scattered in Nutter’s strange […]
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