Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
Format: Book
Description: ix, 210 pages ; 20 cm
"This collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables and tales is populated by people--and monsters and aliens and animals and inanimate objects--motivated by and grappling with the fears and desires that unite us all."--P. [2] of cover.
Contents:
The book -- The swimming pool -- The tunnel -- The crown -- The man who went to China -- The octopus -- The path -- The hunter's head -- The duck -- The well -- The shadow -- The TV and Winston Churchill -- Death and the fruits of the tree -- UFO: a lovestory -- The hat -- The magic pig -- Bigfoot -- The shield -- The Martian -- The little girl and the balloon -- The poet -- The rope and the sea -- The knife act -- The fish in the teapot -- The girl in the storm -- The afterlife is what you leave behind-- The tree -- The sea monster -- The man and the moose -- The end of it all -- On the way down: a story for Ray Bradbury -- The house on the cliff and the sea -- The snake in the throat -- The graveyard -- The ferris wheel -- Photographs -- The walk that replaced understanding -- The woman and the basement -- Hadley -- The TV.
ISBN:
0143119508
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Loory | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |