Amelia Gray's Museum of the weird.
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TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 171 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1573661562 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781573661560 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Museum of the weird
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Gray Ame | Available | 33111006295311 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
A stunning collection of stories that reveal wondrous play and surreal humor
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 amidst the humor. Characters find their footing in these bizarre scenarios and manage to fall into redemption and rebirth. Museum of the Weird invites you into its hallways, then beguiles, bewitches, and reveals a writer who has discovered a manner of storytelling all her own.
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.