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