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This is not a love song : stories / Brendan Mathews.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 208 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316382144
  • 0316382140
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Contained works:
  • Mathews, Brendan. Heroes of the revolution
  • Mathews, Brendan. Airborne
  • Mathews, Brendan. How long does the first part go?
  • Mathews, Brendan. Dunn & Sons
  • Mathews, Brendan. Look at everything
  • Mathews, Brendan. Drive
  • Mathews, Brendan. Henry and his brother
  • Mathews, Brendan. Salvage
  • Mathews, Brendan. My last attempt to explain to you what happened with the lion tamer
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Heroes of the revolution -- This is not a love song -- Airborne -- How long does the first part last? -- Dunn & Sons -- Look at everything -- The drive -- Henry and his brother -- Salvage -- My last attempt to explain to you what happened with the lion tamer.
Summary: A collection of dark, witty stories explores the efforts of ordinary people to persevere when marriages, friendships, and families come undone.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Mathews, Brendan Available 33111009318722
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A debut collection of moving and darkly witty stories from an "admirably fearless" ( New York Times Book Review ) writer whom critics have compared to Michael Chabon, E.L. Doctorow, and Dennis Lehane
A Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" Selection
When marriages, friendships, and families come undone, to what lengths do we go to keep it all together? That question lies at the heart of Brendan Mathews's buoyant and unforgettable debut story collection. A young mother watches as her desperate husband, convinced a hidden poison lurks inside their walls, tears their home apart. Two journalists bruised by romance and revolution, one a survivor of the Bosnian war, trade tales of lost lovers. A father and his sons haggle over the family business during a high-stakes round of golf. And a lovesick circus clown tries to explain the accidents that bound him to a trapeze artist and a witless lion tamer.
If Mathews's novel The World of Tomorrow was an "outsized" entertainment, a "big, expressive debut" ( Wall Street Journal ), then This Is Not a Love Song , two stories from which have been included in The Best American Short Stories , is glorious proof that he excels equally as a miniaturist. From rock-star flameouts to church burnings to ordinary people trying not to fall out of love, these stories are packed with vivid detail, emotional precision, and deft, redemptive humor.

Heroes of the revolution -- This is not a love song -- Airborne -- How long does the first part last? -- Dunn & Sons -- Look at everything -- The drive -- Henry and his brother -- Salvage -- My last attempt to explain to you what happened with the lion tamer.

A collection of dark, witty stories explores the efforts of ordinary people to persevere when marriages, friendships, and families come undone.

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