I Dream of Microwaves

By Imad Rahman

In his smashing debut story collection I Dream of Microwaves, Imad Rahman navigates the world of marginal actors looking for work--and love--in quirky, unseemly venues. Following the travails of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374174016
• ISBN13: 9780374174019
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

I loved this book

I absolutely loved this book. This collection takes off like a firecracker and keeps spinning, with flinty sparks of cynicism and satire, until the last page. It's imaginative, smart, and stakes out its own territory rather rehashing the familiar workshoppy world of the short story. And that, I think, is what I like most about this collection: the author takes a familiar from, the short story, and then cuts a new groove so that the stories don't really seem like very many stories I've seen before. I told two friends (from my days in grad school) to buy the book and if they didn't like it, I'd buy the book off them. So far no one's come to me for a refund! I Dream of Microwaves is good stuff.

Drop and Roll Funny

I loved it! It has the same off kilter spin on Hollywood as My Fractured Life does. You will fall out of your chair.

Lots of Fun

If you like books like 'my fractured life' and 'running with scissors' you'll like this.

Hilarious!

Absolutely hilarious! I was laughing out loud! It reads like a Pakastani version of Rikki Travolta's send up of Hollywood would-be actors 'My Fractured Life'. Naming the actor Kareem Abdul-Jabar was so irreverant and nonsensical it couldn't be funnier! You will laugh out loud, I promise. It has the same kind of funniness as 'My Fractured Life' and 'Postcards From the Edge.' Absolutely hilarious!

Great!

Great book! The writing is very funny and nicely tied together. Similar to the book My Fractured Life, but more surreal. Still very funny.