Skinny dipping in the Lake of the Dead : stories / Alan DeNiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeNiro, Alan.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

215 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2006]

Summary:

"DeNiro's stories have been published in the most forward-looking magazines including Fence, Crowd, One Story, Strange Horizons, and 3rd Bed. These stories skitter sideways across literary and genre fiction categories, using the toolbox of genres like science fiction and fantasy to grapple with issues of identity, family, gender, and politics. DeNiro is frequently funny, surreal, or slapstick, but his stories also connect with readers on an emotional level, in unexpected and surprising ways. Even in the oddest of DeNiro's stories, his characters are real people grappling with real relationships, real heartbreaks, the small, cruel, pinprick absurdities of a universe which is larger and stranger than most writers ever realize. A MAN LOSES his leg in a war, and a field doctor sews on a fairy tale in its place. A woman excavates her living room in order to discover what has become of her marriage. The Byzantine army invades a small college town. Giants move in next door. A boy in a town called Suddenly falls in love with a girl who lives in the Lake of the Dead. The secret history of Erie -- past, present, and future -- is revealed."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Our Byzantium

Skinny dipping in the Lake of the dead

If I leap

Fourth

Centaur

Cuttlefish

Caliber

Excavation

Keeper

Fuming woman

Friendly giants

Quiver

Child assassin

Exchanges

Salting the map

Home of the.

Other Format:

Online version: DeNiro, Alan. Skinny dipping in the Lake of the Dead.

ISBN:

1931520178

9781931520171

OCLC:

64084526