Making Sense of Things

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.A grand tour of the edges of our lives, where glory and significance riot against the logic of living and the pall of tragedy.The Making Sense of Things is a collection of twelve stories that pulse with memory, magic, and myth—all our favorite ways of trying to make sense of things.Readers are treated to vivid and unforgettable characters. A fiercely independent woman puts the man who loves her to unconscionable tests, never guessing that arson, suicide, and canine obesity will yield a magical kind of happiness. A honeymooner in Venice, addled by fever and second thoughts, commits by dumb error a double murder. A brisk lawyer founders when a car wreck claims his son and ex-wife, then discovers that the desperation of grief is a kind of hope.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-03-06
Mått137 x 213 x 17 mm
Vikt280 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagThe University of Alabama Press
ISBN9781573660655

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