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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791962403321

Autore

Gray Amelia <1982->

Titolo

Museum of the weird [[electronic resource] /] / Amelia Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2010

ISBN

1-57366-818-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Short stories, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Babies -- Waste -- Unsolved mystery -- Dinner -- A javelina story -- The darkness -- The cottage cheese diet -- Death of a beast -- Thoughts while strolling -- Trip advisory: the boyhood home of former president Ronald Reagan -- Code of operation: snake farm -- The tortoise and the hare -- Fish -- There will be sense -- Diary of the blockage -- The cube -- Love, mortar -- This quiet complex -- Vultures -- The pit -- The picture window -- The vanished -- The suitcase -- The movement.

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize      A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to love and care for your mate-a paring knife. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in Amelia Gray's stunning collection of stories: Museum of the Weird.      Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these shorts, while sickness and death lurk amids