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Raised in captivity : fictional nonfiction / Chuck Klosterman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 307 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780735217928
  • 0735217920
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Raised in captivity -- Execute again -- Toxic actuality -- How can this be the place? -- The truth about food -- Every day just comes and goes -- Blizzard of summer -- Of course it is -- Skin -- The perfect kind of friend -- Cat person -- Experience music project -- Pain is a concept by which we measure our god -- What about the children -- (An excerpt from) a life that wasn't mine -- Not that kind of person -- Rhinoceros -- The enemy within -- The secret -- Trial and error -- Tricks aren't illusions -- Fluke -- If something is free the product is you -- Never look at your phone -- Reality apathy -- Reasonable apprehension -- Just asking questions -- To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die, except that it actually is -- Tell don't show -- Slang of ages -- Slow pop -- [ ] -- I get it now -- The power of other people.
Summary: "A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song 'Blizzard of Summer' becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why reality is mathematically unraveling. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination."--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction Klosterm Chuck Available 33111009370269
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Klosterm Chuck Available 33111009682135
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.

Raised in captivity -- Execute again -- Toxic actuality -- How can this be the place? -- The truth about food -- Every day just comes and goes -- Blizzard of summer -- Of course it is -- Skin -- The perfect kind of friend -- Cat person -- Experience music project -- Pain is a concept by which we measure our god -- What about the children -- (An excerpt from) a life that wasn't mine -- Not that kind of person -- Rhinoceros -- The enemy within -- The secret -- Trial and error -- Tricks aren't illusions -- Fluke -- If something is free the product is you -- Never look at your phone -- Reality apathy -- Reasonable apprehension -- Just asking questions -- To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die, except that it actually is -- Tell don't show -- Slang of ages -- Slow pop -- [ ] -- I get it now -- The power of other people.

"A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song 'Blizzard of Summer' becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why reality is mathematically unraveling. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination."--Provided by publisher.

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