The Old Man and the Bird and Other Fictions
[pleasant and unpleasant]
Six dark fictions with a cosmic scope and a delirious immediacy, these shorter pieces (2 novellas and 4 one-acts) are an aspect of Swartz's gift many will find welcome, others hugely unsettling. The Old Man and the Bird, the concluding sequence of a befuddled Harry Ricci, could be taken as a neo-conservatively-grotesque parable. From there it is a short stroll to Burt Spew in Snappers, a madcap Armageddon of its own and parody of Jaws. We have as well such oddities as The Damnation of Winston Pollock, the saga of a disgruntled software wizard; The Gift Horse and the Gift, the comic swan song of a disaffected shooter;…
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- ISBN: 978-0-595-41629-5
- EAN: 9780595416295
- Produktnummer: 2637439
- Verlag: iUniverse
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 405 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 405
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