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Bad news of the heart / Douglas Glover.
LIBRA PR9199.3.G584 B3 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glover, Douglas, 1948-
- Series:
- Lannan selection
- A Lannan selection, Canadian literature series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Normal, Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In Bad News of the Heart, a seeing-eye dog leads a blind man into a frozen river, a southern Baptist loses his memory and finds true love in Bel Air, an obese dot.com executive has "anorgasmic" latex sex with her CEO, and a homeless man in New York creates an intellectual universe based on Stick 'em notes stuck to the inside of his cardboard box shelter. Douglas Glover's stories are wildly inventive, deadpan comedies of our universal human catastrophe. They are sly, demanding and wise -- stories about language, desire and love (in a very dark place). The humor veers from the wry and sardonic to salacious, mordant and playful. And always there are moments of such stark emotional intimacy that the reader slides, almost without noticing, from laughter to lament.
- Contents:
- Iglaf and Swan 3
- State of the Nation 19
- Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon 27
- The Obituary Writer 47
- A Man in a Box 67
- A Guide to Animal Behaviour 95
- The Indonesian Client 99
- La Corriveau 117
- Why I Decide To Kill Myself and Other Jokes 129
- Bad News of the Heart 145
- My Romance 167
- A Piece of the True Cross 191.
- ISBN:
- 1564782867
- OCLC:
- 51241991
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