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Imaginary museums : stories / Nicolette Polek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First Soft Skull editionDescription: x, 114 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781593765866
  • 159376586X
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"--
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Polek, Nicolett Available 33111009590130
Total holds: 0

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"--

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