surrealistic

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The explorations of her mind as a child that she shares here allow you to better understand and more deeply appreciate the surrealistic worlds she presents in “M Train” and “Year of the Monkey.”

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025

Elle calls this surrealistic novel “funny, brilliant, gutting, and easily devoured over the course of one blissful afternoon.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

But he also received what he calls “gifts” during that surrealistic rupture in the space-time continuum.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

He stresses that he wanted to create the surrealistic life of a Secret Service agent, one minute guarding the president and another chasing guys passing a fake $20.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2023

“In the account I struck upon an especially suitable simile in comparing the Scenicruiser bus to a loop-the- loop in a surrealistic amusement park.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole