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Informationen zum Autor Matthew Kirkpatrick's fiction has appeared in the Notre Dame Review, Web Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Klappentext This is an inventive, surprising collection of short stories full of odd, marginal characters rendered with surreal humor and lyrical, often beautiful language. Formally playful, these stories take the shape of biographies, instructions, glossaries, and diagrams, all ultimately in the service of depicting characters with emotional intensity. Zusammenfassung This is an inventive! surprising collection of short stories full of odd! marginal characters rendered with surreal humor and lyrical! often beautiful language. Formally playful! these stories take the shape of biographies! instructions! glossaries! and diagrams! all ultimately in the service of depicting characters with emotional intensity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Different Distances 1 Instructions 13 Light Without 15 Pennsylvania 39 The Saddening 41 Crystal Castles 47 Pineal Gland 61 Throw Him in the Water 63 Nevada 77 The Celebrations 79 The Most Amazing Attic 93 The AuralSec Story, A Corporate History, Chapter 7: Our Dependable Grampy 97 Animal Attacks 113 Glossary 115 The Board Game Monopoly 123 The Sodding 141 Pastoral 143 Iceland 151 Some Kirkpatricks 153 Acknowledgments 177
