And Yet It Moves

Informationen zum Autor Erin Stalcup's fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Sun, H_NGM_N, Hobart, [PANK] , and elsewhere. Klappentext In this exquisite debut short story collection, people with unusual jobs and lives embark on extraordinary journeys. A taboo romance breaks the laws of gravity. Albert Einstein writes letters to the daughter he abandoned. A female physicist meets Stephen Hawking in a bar. . . . In the closing novella, All Those Stairs, an elevator operator with a genius IQ rides up and down all day enclosed in a metal box. Author Erin Stalcup explores these lives with remarkable compassion, depth, and insight examining loss and longing, and how our bodies and minds can be both weighted and freed. And Yet It Moves is a powerful combination of both absurdist and realist stories that literally defy gravity." Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Gravity In the Heart of the Heart of the Empire Keen With Strangers Ghost Writer Not Long for this World Ochre Is the Color of Deserts and Dried Blood Brightest Corners Why Things Fall I. Newton II. Einstein III. Tesla IV. Galileo, Hawking, Rabinowitz All Those Stairs Credits

Product details

• Authors: Robin Black, Tim Horvath, Kevin McIlvoy, Erin Stalcup, Stalcup Erin, Tipahnie Yanique
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780253022035
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02203-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Break Away Books; Break Away Books; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy