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Gutshot : stories / Amelia Gray.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 209 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374175446 (softcover)
  • 9780374175443 (softcover)
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
In the moment -- House heart -- The lark -- People of the bay -- On a pleasant afternoon, every battle is recalled -- Monument -- Western passage -- The death of James -- A gentleman -- Away from -- Fifty ways to eat your lover -- The moment of conception -- Journey's end -- These are the fables -- Gutshot -- How he felt -- Labyrinth -- Device -- The swan as metaphor for love -- Year of the snake -- The heart -- A contest -- Go for it and raise hell -- the lives of ghosts -- Christmas House -- Viscera -- Date night -- Curses -- Blood -- Precious Katherine -- On the teat -- Flight log, Chicago/Toledo -- Loop -- Thank you -- Legacy -- The man ahead -- House proud.
Summary: "A searing new collection from the inimitable Amelia Gray. A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. These singular stories live and breathe on their own, pulsating with energy and humanness and a glorious sense of humor. Hers are stories that you will read and reread--raw gems that burrow into your brain, reminders of just how strange and beautiful our world is. These collected stories come to us like a vivisected body, the whole that is all the more elegant and breathtaking for exploring its most grotesque and intimate lightless viscera"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Story collection by the author of THREATS"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Gray Amelia Available 33111007985597
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in Gutshot , where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. A master of the macabre, Gray's work is not for the faint of heart or gut: lick at your own risk.

In the moment -- House heart -- The lark -- People of the bay -- On a pleasant afternoon, every battle is recalled -- Monument -- Western passage -- The death of James -- A gentleman -- Away from -- Fifty ways to eat your lover -- The moment of conception -- Journey's end -- These are the fables -- Gutshot -- How he felt -- Labyrinth -- Device -- The swan as metaphor for love -- Year of the snake -- The heart -- A contest -- Go for it and raise hell -- the lives of ghosts -- Christmas House -- Viscera -- Date night -- Curses -- Blood -- Precious Katherine -- On the teat -- Flight log, Chicago/Toledo -- Loop -- Thank you -- Legacy -- The man ahead -- House proud.

"A searing new collection from the inimitable Amelia Gray. A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. These singular stories live and breathe on their own, pulsating with energy and humanness and a glorious sense of humor. Hers are stories that you will read and reread--raw gems that burrow into your brain, reminders of just how strange and beautiful our world is. These collected stories come to us like a vivisected body, the whole that is all the more elegant and breathtaking for exploring its most grotesque and intimate lightless viscera"-- Provided by publisher.

"Story collection by the author of THREATS"-- Provided by publisher.

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