![]() ![]() Sex rears its comely, come-hither head in the chronicling (in “Forever Overhead-) of the perplexing sensations of adolescence in full eruption, and particularly in “Adult World,” a deliriously expanding Robert Coover-like fantasy spun from a young wife’s fretful confusion about pleasing-vs.- offending her docile husband. ,” “The Depressed Person” blandly skewers the culture of self-absorption and psychotherapy (while neatly mocking the latter’s passion for clinical precision), and “Datum Centurio” gets impressive comic mileage out of its brief parody of an etymological dictionary entry. the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright’s Father. Embattled parents and siblings dominate such eerie concoctions as “Signifying Nothing,” in which a primal scene perhaps expressing male dominance has a lasting effect on a son’s relationship with his father and a powerfully imaginative torrent of Oedipal rivalry spoken “On his Deathbed. ![]() Though few of the tales here contain conventionally developed characters or narrative situations, most feature instantly recognizable generic figures. A stimulating, if intermittently opaque, collection of discursive stories and even less fully fictionalized humorous pieces from the savvy-surrealistic author of Infinite Jest (1996), etc. ![]()
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