One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies |
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| Author:
| Manguso, Sarah
Eggers, Dave
Unferth, Deb Olin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-932416-82-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Publisher: | McSweeney's Publishing
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set brings together individual short-fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form. Manguso's
Hard to Admit and
Harder to Escape is a series of crystalline recollections of her childhood misadventures; Eggers's
How the Water Feels to the Fishes brings a deadpan absurdism to the intimacy and vision of his earlier work; and...
More DescriptionIn the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set brings together individual short-fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form. Manguso's Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape is a series of crystalline recollections of her childhood misadventures; Eggers's How the Water Feels to the Fishes brings a deadpan absurdism to the intimacy and vision of his earlier work; and Unferth's rollicking Minor Robberies unleashes a horde of off-kilter characters and their indelible misadventures.