Officers Weep A Short Story edition by Daniel Orozco Literature Fiction eBooks
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A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter.
"Officers Weep" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination.
Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction.
Officers Weep A Short Story edition by Daniel Orozco Literature Fiction eBooks
This Kindle freebie is one of the stories from Orozco's "Orientation" collection, not the entire book. But it works just fine as an introduction to Orozco's style. He seems to have mastered "edgy-bemused" with a spicy pinch of exaggeration and well-timed word play. This story has a remarkable rhythm. It starts out slowly, with just hints of excess. But as the police blotter entries proceed they go further and further off the track. The build is so slow and carefully calibrated, (and wildly funny), that the reader is never sure how exactly he ended up being led so far astray. Which, it seems to me, is the author's larger point.And, even if you don't buy the "love affair" between the two officers, many of the bits and blotter entries, (some only a few sentences), are funny and insightful just standing alone.
Anyway, this is brief; it's free; it's a hoot. So indulge yourself.
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Officers Weep A Short Story edition by Daniel Orozco Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I read this in The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (The Best American Series) and loved it. It's a lovely surreal piece about the lives and loves of the police, written in police blotter format. Think Hill Street Blues or Homicide Life on the Street as written by Donald Barthelme.
When you first get a , you find yourself downloading a variety of stories. Stories are not always books. This is just a story. And it was just okay, like the other very short stories by this author that were available at the time. For free, okay. I would not pay anything for these.
Interesting.
One of the best short stories I've read on . Very charming and funny love story, told in an unsual format. I highly recommend.
As the story progressed, the format (the story of two police officers told through log reports that became more and more fanciful as the day went on) lost more and more charm for me. I enjoy the author's work (I've read several of his short stories so far), but this story was pretty much a miss for me.
Daniel Orozco's collection of short stories, Orientation, includes this gem called Officers Weep. The first page of this story did not grab me, actually I was initially unimpressed. As the story progressed, I became hooked by the curt language of the day's events, intermingled with surprising and entertaining remarks throughout. Starsky and Hutch this is not, it's much better and I highly recommend this short story as well as the author.
This freebie is one of the stories from Orozco's "Orientation" collection, not the entire book. But it works just fine as an introduction to Orozco's style. He seems to have mastered "edgy-bemused" with a spicy pinch of exaggeration and well-timed word play. This story has a remarkable rhythm. It starts out slowly, with just hints of excess. But as the police blotter entries proceed they go further and further off the track. The build is so slow and carefully calibrated, (and wildly funny), that the reader is never sure how exactly he ended up being led so far astray. Which, it seems to me, is the author's larger point.
And, even if you don't buy the "love affair" between the two officers, many of the bits and blotter entries, (some only a few sentences), are funny and insightful just standing alone.
Anyway, this is brief; it's free; it's a hoot. So indulge yourself.
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