Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day
Lake Forest, IL : &NOW Books, an imprint of Lake Forest College Press, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: 229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
"The sly fabulism of JD Scott's fiction casts its own peculiar spell upon the reader as it outlines a world unsettlingly similar to our own. Scott troubles the line between what is literary and genre, fairy tale and parable. In one story, a perfumer keeps his boyfriend close at hand by dosing him with precise measures of poison. In another, a comical domestic drama hinges upon the life and death of an ancient chinchilla. Scott pushes liminality with magical scrolls, a drowned twin returning from the sea, and a witty retelling of the Crucifixion where a gym bunny chops down a tree in the Garden of Eden--only to transform the wood into a cross for himself. This debut collection ends with an epic novella where a heroic teenager comes of age inside an otherworldly shopping mall that spans the entire globe. Visceral, dreamlike, and full of dazzling prose: Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day announces the arrival of a distinctive talent who challenges us to see our own endless possibilities--to find luminescence inside and beyond the shadows."-- Page 4 of cover.
Contents:
The teenager -- Chinchilla -- The hand that sews -- Cross -- Moonflower, nightshade, all the hours of the day -- Where parallel lines come to touch -- Night things -- Their sons return home to die -- After the end came the mall, and the mall was everything -- Fordite pendant.
ISBN:
9781941423059
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Scott | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
"Winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize"--Cover