The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories
Fans of the work of Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and T. Coraghessan Boyle will revel in Alasdair Gray's masterful, witty collection. Gray's stories defy genre, and his angular, playful style, prodigious wit, and razor-sharp intellect are matched by his remarkable skill with the short-story form. In Job's Skin Game, the narrator humbly tells his life story like the evenings news. During a moment of awkward revelation, he shares the strangely exquisite pleasure he receives from scratching at the skin condition he's developed since losing his two sons in the Twin Towers tragedy and a small fortune in the dot-com meltdown. In…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84195-626-8
- EAN: 9781841956268
- Produktnummer: 1378766
- Verlag: Canongate Us
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H18.5 cm x B12.0 cm x D1.3 cm 168 g
- Gewicht: 168
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