Imaginary museums : stories / Nicolette Polek.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781593765866
- 159376586X
- Short stories. Selections
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Main Library | Fiction | Polek, Nicolett | Available | 33111009590130 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A collection of flash fiction that feels seemingly arbitrary with an ache of human longing for connection peppered in. . . . These bizarre but beautiful stories transport you elsewhere with no intention of bringing you back." -Ashleah Gonzales, W magazine
In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm inhabited by disheveled landlords, a fugitive bride, a seamstress who forgets what people look like, and two rival falconers from neighboring towns. They find themselves in bathhouses, sports bars, grocery stores, and forests in search of exits, pink tennis balls, licorice, and independence. Yet all of her beautifully strange characters are possessed by a familiar and human longing for connection- to their homes, families, God, and themselves.
Miniature catastrophes -- The rope barrier -- Coed picnic -- Winners -- Grocery story -- Garden party -- Arranged marriage -- American interiors -- A house for living -- The dance -- The nearby place -- Invitation -- Doorstop -- Imaginary museums -- Your shining trapdoor -- Slovak sceneries -- Sabbatical -- Flowers for Angelika -- Thursdays at Waterhouse -- The seamstress -- How to eat well -- Owls fall in Nitra -- Library of lost things -- Girls I no longer know -- Guest books -- Field notes -- Rest in pieces -- Pets I no longer have -- The squinter's watch -- Love language.
"In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm inhabited by disheveled landlords, a fugitive bride, a seamstress who forgets what people look like, and two rival falconers from neighboring towns. They find themselves in bathhouses, sports bars, grocery stores, and forests in search of exits, pink tennis balls, licorice, and independence. Yet all of her beautifully strange characters are possessed by a familiar and human longing for connection: to their homes, families, God, and themselves"--