Officers Weep

A Short Story

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Officers Weep by Daniel Orozco, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Daniel Orozco ISBN: 9781466800601
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: September 6, 2011
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Daniel Orozco
ISBN: 9781466800601
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: September 6, 2011
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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.

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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.

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