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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148757103321

Autore

Brennan Karen <1941->

Titolo

Monsters / / Karen Brennan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Four Way Books, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-935535-91-9

1-935536-91-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 pages)

Disciplina

813.0108

Soggetti

Short stories, American - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Snow Day -- Smokers -- The First -- Distant Nurse -- The Rat Story -- The Skeleton in the Closet -- The Vanishing -- Headless -- On Longing -- Souls in Transit, Souls at Rest -- Monsters -- Mouse Choir, An Opera -- The Couple -- Wrong Body Type -- The Hug -- The Evening Visitor -- 10 Birds -- Shopping -- A Theft -- On Bliss -- Wish -- Last Quartet -- In His Wildest Dreams -- Home is Where the Heart is -- The Cancer Card -- Pete, Waste Lab Technician -- Our Way to the Highway -- Still Life -- L -- The Migrating Wall -- Homeless Cat -- Wherewithal -- Toy Dog -- Bark -- The Corpse and its Admirers -- The New New Music -- The Story of Ms Barbara Howe -- The Snow Queen -- Imminence -- Acknowledgments.

Sommario/riassunto

Literal as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions.