Proper Imposters: Four Novellas - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Four contemporary authors explore the vices and virtues of deception and how it manifests in ways personal, psychological, propulsive, and profound. n nDistributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of nPanhandler Books, an imprint of the Department of English and World nLanguages at the University of West Florida n n n nIn Proper Imposters, n four contemporary authors explore the vices and virtues of deception nand how it manifests in ways personal, psychological, propulsive, and nprofound. An accountant at a pencil manufacturing company investigates a n series of ominous events behind the facade of the mysterious company nwhere he works; from their deathbeds, fictionalized versions of Nikolai nGogol and Edgar Allen Poe look back on their lives and remember an epic, n transformational, and ahistorical road trip they took together as young n men; a young woman is startled into action trying to execute a simple nplan of escape involving cash, a sleep-over by her college roommate and n the bold seduction of a boy she has decided to lose her virginity to; nand, a reclusive night-shift worker tries a daring weight-loss nexperiment only to find himself pursued by a stalker no one else can nsee. Montiel Figueiras, Parker, Bhuvaneswar, and Ockert are devotees and n virtuosos of the form, and each novella is lyrically rich in its prose nand swift in its plotting. Together, the novellas startle with the nconsequences of seeing and being seen. n