The Gnome Stories Stories |
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| Author:
| Monson, Ander |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64445-012-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2020 |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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An unsettling, wildly imaginative collection of stories The Gnome Storiesfocuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace--or at least a sense of purpose--in peculiar jobs and pursuits. A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors' homes. When another man's...
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An unsettling, wildly imaginative collection of stories
The Gnome Storiesfocuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace--or at least a sense of purpose--in peculiar jobs and pursuits.
A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors' homes. When another man's girlfriend is cryogenically frozen by her family after a car accident, he becomes a maintenance worker at the cryogenic facility, eavesdropping on visitors as they whisper secrets to their frozen loved ones. A woman serves as an assistant to the Starvationist, whose methods to help clients lose large amounts of weight are unorthodox, sadistic--and utterly failproof. Another woman and her robot assistant have been hired to tinker with the troubling memories inside a celebrity's brain.
WithThe Gnome Stories,Ander Monson presents eleven unforgettable stories about oddly American situations: as surreal as an urban legend and at the same time perfectly mundane.