Stories from the Tube

by Matthew Sharpe

The debut of a startlingly original literary voice, in the tradition of Robert Olen Butler's Tabloid Dreams--this collection of ten short stories was inspired by television commercials. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375501967
• ISBN13: 9780375501968
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Villard
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A terrific, smart book.

This book is great, not only sharp and funny but oddly affecting. The smartness goes somewhere, which is a treat.

The post-modernist's Stephen King...

Don't buy it for the brilliant story "A Bird Accident," which vividly illustrates what happens when art gets run over-- not once, but a few times-- by commerce; don't buy it for the hilarious and terrifying ministrations of "Dr. Mom," a woman who won't stop until her kids have the very best of EVERYTHING; don't plunk down your cash for an ecstatic, cleansing homage to the blinding whites of "Tide"; no, buy it for yourself because... You're worth it.

Better Than Must See TV!

Sharpe's stories add life to the flat existence of our culture's strange little filmic sales pitches. His humor is dark and the characters are fully-formed, not like some hack actors, but rather like the folks down the street. One of my favorite books of the year.