Museum of the weird / Amelia Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Amelia, 1982-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize A monogrammed cube appears in your town. Your landlord cheats you out of first place in the annual Christmas decorating contest. You need to learn how to love and care for your mate-a paring knife. These situations and more reveal the wondrous play and surreal humor that make up the stories in Amelia Gray's stunning collection of stories: Museum of the Weird. Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these shorts, while sickness and death lurk amids

Contents:

Babies

Waste

Unsolved mystery

Dinner

A javelina story

The darkness

The cottage cheese diet

Death of a beast

Thoughts while strolling

Trip advisory: the boyhood home of former president Ronald Reagan

Code of operation: snake farm

The tortoise and the hare

Fish

There will be sense

Diary of the blockage

The cube

Love, mortar

This quiet complex

Vultures

The pit

The picture window

The vanished

The suitcase

The movement.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-57366-818-4

OCLC:

772845460