Bang Crunch
Stories
New York : Vintage Contemporaries, [2007]
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Description: 242 pages ; 21 cm
In Neil Smith's nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes.
Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.
Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.
Contents:
Isolettes -- Green fluorescent protein -- The B9ers -- Bang crunch -- Scrapbook -- The butterfly box -- Funny weird or funny ha ha? -- Extremities -- Jaybird.
ISBN:
9780307386106 (pbk.)
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Smith | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |